Lyrics Brown Cow - The Residents

When you've had as many lovers as I have
A certain blurring becomes inevitable
This one merges into that
A she becomes a he
And the he blends into the blobby mass of everybody
But some do stand out
Eventually becoming the white thumb in the black palm
The albino in the beam of the flashlight

Marie, Marie was like that
I guess it was her innocence that set her apart
I, I don't normally hold innocence in such high esteem
Everybody has it and everybody loses it

And sometimes it's my job to hasten that loss
As one might expect
Coming to grips with the real me as opposed to the dream me
Is an inevitable step in most of my encounters
There's always a slight period of disillusionment
But, but they eventually get over it
Or not, whatever

But Marie
We were standing in the kitchen and
It was almost like she melted
One moment she was staring at me with a look of confusion
And in an instant she was lying at my feet on the floor
As you can imagine

The drama thing really doesn't work on me
But, but this was different

I stood there looking at her until
Hesitantly reaching out

I watched her eyes as they
As they followed my, my arm

And moved over towards the stove
She had the oddest expression
And then staring at the oven door
She began to talk
About the cow, the old brown cow
And the day the cow died
And then she began to blubber like a baby
Like that goddamn cow was her pet bunny
And fucking Charles Manson had just bit its head off
It really freaked me out

I think about her all the time
We put the old brown cow to sleep
Whacked her on the head
Then went to a picture show
Left her in the shed
The movie was a comedy
But I didn't laugh
So we bought a butcher knife
And a toy giraffe

He said that he loved me
And he told me that he cared
He said that he loved the way I walked
And I was weird
Now he hovers over me
And motions in the air
He's pointing at the oven