Lyrics The Dying Oilman - The Residents

The Dying Oilman

I could be good, maybe I’m crazy
I could be good, maybe I’m mad
I could be good, don’t get in my way
Because I could be good, but I’m bad
(Coughing) Ugh…
I never thought it be like this.
(coughing) I just- I just figured it’d be a
brand new El Dorado every year from now on.
Aw, who is this guy in the mirror?
He looks so weak and pasty…
I always wanted to take little Sam to see that Sphinx statue over there in Egypt
I still don’t like the idea of that guy over in Denver firefloodin' on my field.
Asshole’s so dumb he wouldn’t know a pisspot from a kumquat.
(coughing) Ugh…
God, he could cost me a thousand barrels a day out of that field
Always wanted to see all that stuff they got over there in Europe,
and take little Sam and Earline both
Oh, God, I need a smoke.
(coughing) Don’t seem like one little smoke would
matter that much now… I gotta go back for more of them treatments tomorrow
Green.
The whole goddamn place is green.
But… but it ain’t grass green,
or money green, It’s puke green, or pus green.
And it’s- it’s the kind of
green I feel like when I’m there, like a bug about to be squished
I just- I just know Earline would love to see that Eiffel Tower over there in
France.
I think maybe she even has a poster about it in her room…