Hidden Hand

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"Hidden Hand" is a song recorded by The Residents in 2002 during sessions for the Demons Dance Alone album, but left off the final track listing, instead appearing on the bonus disc of its deluxe edition (in instrumental and vocal forms). Its omission from the deluxe version's lyric sheet might suggest the song was never finished.

Lyrics

(transcribed by ear)

I have a hidden
hand that is forbidden
for it believes in nothing
much but it is touching

When it was caressing
your ankle, I guess I
messed up in the borrowed
blanket but I was sorry;
Maybe it was too much
but it needed to touch
something hard and bony
or you'd never know me.

I never knew what to do
with the hand that loved you;
Is it strange to explain
how a hand holds my pain?