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I can't hang out with the haunted eye
though I don't know why. -repeat-

I was born in a crypt a hundred years ago
A spider was my mom.
Working as shill in a traveling show
til I killed someone.

I can't hang out with the haunted eye
though I don't know why. -repeat-

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by wattdefalk

14y ago

Not sure how seriously to take these factoids: The Residents play in EYE-ball masks, their alter ego is the CRYPT-ic corporation, one of their most famous works is the Freak Show... and those falsetto hooting atonal voices sound very Residential, too...???

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