The Residents - Part Three: Ship's a Goin' Down [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

Catbird:
Why not live?

Chorus:
The catbird shrilled!

Catbird:
And give a guy a chance!
For soon the moon will sing a tune and I'll be left to dance

Uncle Remus:
Well, strangers have left on longer trains before

Catbird:
Yes, shake and shout and cause a spout to be a mockery!
Exist inside a lemon drop and cause no word to be
If after all this oleo a speck of dust exists
We'll set aside a common tide 'twixt friend and who he's kissed

Enigmatic Foe:
He thought the end was overdue, but day broke him instead
And consequently what he read was never what he said
And don't you never

Chorus:
Said the ever Enigmatic Foe

Enigmatic Foe:
Lose your cool, or after school
They'll find me home in bed

Catbird:
What hoe you rake, you fake a taking and a mating moo;
Confuse to use and quick to break are simple rules to you
Why send a curly head to bed and know her secrets too?

Enigmatic Foe:
Glue it down you dripping clown, and be not busy, too;
If a needy, if a seedy lets him come on through
Keys are not thrust open spores, and neither is a broken store!
There are clothes that haven't been worn
Feet that haven't been shorn
There's causes that haven't been given a principle
Need I say more?

Uncle Remus:
The soft spoken edge was a close fit
With the warped open cracks so many

All:
The quick brain drained the main
And the ships a goin' down me mates
The ship she's a goin' down
The ship' she's a goin' down