Bathsheba Bathes

by The Residents

From the album: Wormwood

Track 12 of 20 on Wormwood (1998).

Duration: 2:54

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Lyrics for Bathsheba Bathes

Out in the openness of night She bathes before my sucking sight Fingers of fire so soft and slow Make her amber body glow He takes what he wants With smiling lies He takes what he wants And someone dies Like caution to the newly blind Her image never leaves my mind I have to hear her as she cries Underneath my buning eyes Her husband is fighting far away In my army so they'll say I took his honor with his wife So he must lose it with his life A king is noble, strong and right With appetites to match his might With gore and glory in his bed His penis rules a rancid head

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  2. Fire Fall
  3. They Are the Meat
  4. Meloncholy Clumps
  5. How to Get a Head
  6. Cain and Abel
  7. Mr. Misery
  8. Tent Peg in the Temple
  9. God's Magic Finger
  10. Spilling the Seed
  11. Dinah and the Unclean Skin
  12. Bathsheba Bathes
  13. Bridegroom of Blood
  14. Hanging by His Hair
  15. The Seven Ugly Cows
  16. Burn Baby Burn
  17. Kill Him
  18. I Hate Heaven
  19. Judas Saves
  20. Revelation