Tongue

"Tongue" is a series of four tracks by The Residents, which appear as linking pieces throughout their 2002 concept album Demons Dance Alone, beginning with the album's opening track "I. Tongue" (or "Tongue 1" on the 2016 reissue), and also including the album's unlisted tracks 10, 19 and 27 (which are respectively retitled "Tongue 2", "Tongue 3" and "Tongue 4" on the 2016 MVD Audio reissue of the album).
Together, the four tracks form a narrative about a "ladies' man" with a giant tongue, whose lovers begin to wither away and die when he falls in love with them. All four tracks feature samples of actress Hannah Sim from the animated short film Slow Bob in the Lower Dimensions, which notably featured a score by The Residents.
==Lyrics==
===I. Tongue (or Tongue 1)===
 Everybody just called him Tongue.
 Everybody just called him Tongue.
 Hell, I knew what his real name was...
 Everybody just called him Tongue.
 Of course, he had this giant tongue...
 It was so goddamn big
 He could clean his ears with it
 Yeah, Tongue was quite the ladies' man.
 He fell in love
 And she was something.
 He wanted, uh...
 ("Over here, Bob!")
===10 (or Tongue 2)===
 Yeah, Tongue was quite the ladies' man.
 Well, he played around, and he fell in love
 And she was something.
 He wanted these, uh, Miss America types, that you never see in real life
 But there she was with ol' Tongue.
 Well, they get married, and they're happy, but
 But after a while, she starts losing weight and withering away.
 ("Bob!")
 They go to a doctor...
 ("Over here!")
 But he can't find...
===19 (or Tongue 3)===
 ...After about six months, she shrunk up to about fifty pounds
 And then died.
 Ol' Tongue is all tore up
 But after a few months he meets a new girl
 And she's maybe even more beautiful than the first one
 And they get married
 But then it starts to happen all over again
 ("Bob! Over here!")
===27 (or Tongue 4)===
 ...specialists, and all kinda doctors, but after six or seven months
 She shrivels up to thirty or forty pounds, and then she dies.
 Then, a few months later, Tongue meets another girl
 And it happens again, for the third time.
 Ol' Tongue, he doesn't know what to do
 He goes to doctors, he goes to police
 Nobody can explain it, but
 Well, the thing is
 I just heard that Tongue is in love again
 And now he don't know what to do
 He don't know what to do
 He's getting real sick about it
 Time's up for now, Bob
 Watch out
 Watch out
 Watch out
==List of releases==
*Demons Dance Alone special edition (2002) Demons Dance Alone studio recording, November 2001 - March 2002 (listed as "I. Tongue" and three untitled tracks)
*Demons Dance Alone special edition (2002) Demons Dance Alone studio recording, November 2001 - March 2002 (listed as "I. Tongue" and three untitled tracks)
*Demons Dance Alone MVD Audio CD reissue (2016) Demons Dance Alone studio recording, November 2001 - March 2002 (listed as "Tongue 1", "Tongue 2", "Tongue 3" and "Tongue 4")
===List of versions===
==See also==
*Demons Dance Alone (album)
*Slow Bob in the Lower Dimensions
==External links and references==
*Demons Dance Alone at The Residents Historical
*Demons Dance Alone at RZWeb (archived via archive.org)
*"Tongue 1" at Genius
*"Tongue 2" at Genius
*"Tongue 3" at Genius
*"Tongue 4" at Genius
Category:Songs
Category:Demons Dance Alone
Category:Slow Bob in the Lower Dimensions