Boxes of Armageddon

"Boxes of Armageddon" (or "Boxes Full of Armageddon") is a song by The Residents, featured as the opening track of their 2008 concept album The Bunny Boy. The song was first released as a free digital download on The Residents' official website on August 22nd 2008,Big Brother, "Boxes", The Residents Blog, August 22nd 2008 in advance of the release of the album on September 1st. It was also performed on the corresponding live tour from October to December of the same year.
The Residents first revisited the song in 2010, in an arrangement planned for (but ultimately excised from) the live show Talking Light; this version was later released on the album Lonely Teenager in 2011. A solo version of the song by The Residents' long-time composer Charles Bobuck was featured on the album Bobuck Plays The Residents in 2016. 
In 2023, the song was featured in the set list of The Residents' 50th Anniversary tour, Faceless Forever.
==Lyrics==
 Boxes full of Armageddon, boxes full of death
 Boxes sitting in my doorway, boxes someone left 
 For me to see
 Boxes full of Armageddon, boxes full of death
 For me to see
 Boxes full of Armageddon, boxes full of death
 For me to see
 They were well-worn cardboard boxes, bulging from the weight
 Of documents obsessed with mindless slaughter and decay
 For me to see
 Boxes that depicted a sad reality 
 Full of fiction and reflections of insanity
 For me to see, for me to see
 Boxes full of Armageddon, boxes full of death
 For me to see
 Boxes full of Armageddon, boxes full of death
 For me to see
 Boxes full of Armageddon, boxes full of death
 For me to see
 Boxes full of Armageddon
 Boxes full of Armageddon
 BOXES FULL OF DEATH!
==List of releases==
*The Residents Blog (2008) San Anselmo studio recording, November 2007 - April 2008 (2:12)
*The Bunny Boy (2008) 
*El Año Del Muerto (2009) 
*Lonely Teenager (2011) San Anselmo studio rehearsal recording, November - December 2010 (3:34)
*Bobuck Plays The Residents by Charles Bobuck (2016) Charles Bobuck studio recording, ca. 2015-2016 (3:39)
*Free! Weird! (2018) The Bunny Boy live recording, October - December 2008 (3:27)
*Bunny Boy Live In Frankfurt (2021) The Bunny Boy live recording, Frankfurt, Germany, December 4th 2008 (3:20)
===List of versions===
==External links and references==
*The Bunny Boy at The Residents Historical
*"Boxes of Armageddon" live video at The Residents' official website (archived via archive.org)
*"Boxes of Armageddon" at Genius
*The Bunny Boy at Discogs
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