Cosmetics For Reality

"Cosmetics For Reality" is a song by The Residents, recorded November 7th 1979.Leftovers Again?! liner notes, 2021 The third-to-last song recorded for their Commercial Album, it was not included on the track listing of that album when it was released in October 1980. 
Described as a "tear-jerker, and particularly relevant all these years after it was recorded", "Cosmetics For Reality" was long thought lost, until an instrumental version was included on the pREServed two disc reissue of the album in January 2019. 
A vocal track for the song was later discovered on the multi-track tape; this version was included as the closing track on the limited edition vinyl compilation Leftovers Again?! in 2021. 
==Lyrics==
===Leftovers Again?! (2021)===
 Daydreams for us conceal
 The simple fact that life is real
 Cosmetics for reality
 Eyeliner for the mind
 Sunglasses for the blind
 Cosmetics for reality
 Clear pills for the brain
 Seeing beauty in the plain
 Cosmetics for reality
 Hope springs eternally
 Facts seem to disagree
 Cosmetics for reality
==List of releases==
*Commercial Album pREServed edition (2019) Grove Street studio recording, November 7th 1979 (instrumental mix, 1:05)
*Leftovers Again?! (2021) Grove Street studio recording, November 7th 1979 (1:02)
===List of versions===
==See also==
*Commercial Album
*pREServed
*Leftovers Again?!
== Buy Or Die! ==
=== Listen online ===
* "Cosmetics for Reality" instrumental version on Spotify
* "Cosmetics for Reality" instrumental version on Apple Music
* "Cosmetics for Reality" vocal version on Spotify
* "Cosmetics for Reality" vocal version on Apple Music
==External links and references==
*Commercial Album pREServed edition at Discogs
*Leftovers Again?! at Discogs
Category:Commercial Album
Category:PREServed
Category:Non-album tracks
Category:Leftovers Again?!
Category:Songs