WOULD WE BE ALIVE - The Residents

If we could see clearly

What we were beside

If there was no desperation

Would we be alive?

If there were no windows

That we sit inside

If there were no ugly feelings

Would we be alive?

Help us… Help us… Help us… Ahhhh…

Would you make me helpless

Something I can be

Longing for the sight of something

That I cannot see?

I be helpless on the ocean

Looking from the sea

Looking in the drifting wind

I wish that I could be

Floating near a liquid

Nice and thick and warm

Floating where there is no pleasure

And there is no harm

Life would be so pleasant

If we all could be

Helpless hopeless creatures

Just marching to the sea

Help us… Help us… Help us… Please…