The Confused Transsexual
The Residents * Track #3 On Gingerbread Man
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- #1The Weaver
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- #2The Dying Oilman
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- #3The Confused Transsexual
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- #4The Sold-Out Artist
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- #5The Ascetic
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- #6The Old Soldier
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- #7The Aging Musician
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- #8The Butcher
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- #9The Old Woman
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- #10Ginger’s Lament
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- #11Gingerbread Man (Medley)
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The Confused Transsexual by The Residents
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The description of the Confused Transsexual on The Residents' website:
“They say that no man is an island,” the neutered being told itself, “but I’m certainly not a peninsula.”
After years of failing to conform to society’s ideas of manhood, he had finally decided to become a woman. The difficult p...
The Confused Transsexual Lyrics
[The Gingerbread Man: Mr. Skull]
I'm the Gingerbread man!
[The Confused Transsexual: Diana Alden]
Some say the song of a crow is a cry
Some say the cry of a crow is a lie
I wonder what it's like to be one of them. Do they get jealous? Are some blacker, and therefore creators of envy and mistrust in the dark hearts of their brethren? Or do they just exist, scavenging crumbs of carrion here and there, laughing, cackling really, at the two legged pestilence painfully fouling the ground beneath their airborne pirouettes
Do they really want their screeching and hideous demanding offspring, or do they simply have no choice but to follow compulsions blindly driving them into situations they cannot control? Situations that look so easy and desirable, but lead only to the same pain, and the same suffering, and the same lifeless branches that always indicate a barrier of barren emptiness
Dead trees are everywhere...