The Touch (Instr) - The Residents

As they told me other childhood

Stories, they knew that I stood

Close but, but never close enough to touch

The holy union of their bonding

Which, which I wished to touch so fondly

With my heart, and maybe somehow more

But, but they had a way of keeping

It away, while never seeming

Less than just big open and friendly, friendly doors

On one day it finally happened

Just before they took a nap, we

Joked around the room in which they slept

They were kidding me about an

Incident when I kicked out some

Rowdy shouting something near the door

They said that I had looked afraid

And if I didn’t act my age, well then

They would have to hold me back next time

I laughed and said that it would take

More than just two freaks to make me

Stop if someone interrupted us again

And with that we started shoving

Back and forth until a sudden

Move caught me completely off my guard

They reached around, surrounding me

Within a wall of flesh.

I found my

Only freedom left was in my hand

Which dangled up and down between

Their sides until I jerked and seemed to

Watch it flutter down upon their joint

Fluttered down

It fluttered down

It fluttered down

It fluttered down

It fluttered down

It fluttered down

It fluttered down

It fluttered down

And suddenly a shock went through me

And a moment slipped into the

Room that wasn’t there before

Looking up we all connected

In a triangle of eyes reflecting

Tension and unsaid excitement, too

Then it passed in nervous laughter

But I sensed a change soon after

We unlocked our limbs and I withdrew

Fluttered down

Fluttered down

Fluttered down

It fluttered down

It fluttered down

It fluttered down

Fluttered down

It fluttered down

It fluttered down

It fluttered down

Fluttered down

It fluttered down