The Nameless Souls
"The Nameless Souls" is the fourteenth track on The Residents' Commercial Album, released by Ralph Records in October 1980. Like all songs on the album, it is exactly one minute long.
Music video
A short film with puppets was produced for this song for the Commercial DVD in 2004, by Ty Bardi.
In the summer of 2021, Homer Flynn and John Sanborn collaborated on a handful of homemade TikTok shorts incorporating the Commercial DVD videos through the use of an iPhone; this is one of the songs represented. The group's TikTok account has since been deleted, but the shorts have been archived on YouTube.
Lyrics
She was just uncaring She was just untrue She was just indifferent What else could she do?
I was just a stranger I was just subdued I was just uneasy What else could I do?
We were just the nameless souls that sit inside Wishing that we were someone on the outside Wishing that we were the ones on the outside Wishing that we weren't the ones who were stuck. [1]
List of releases
- Commercial Album (1980) [Version 1]
- Fast Forward 004 (Australian cassette compilation, 1981) [Version 1]
- Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Huddled Masses (1997) [Version 1]
- Commercial DVD (2004) [Version 2]
- Commercial Album pREServed (2019) [Version 1] [Version 3] (2023 LP only)
- Commercial Book bonus disc (2024) [Version 4]
List of versions
External links and references
- Commercial Album at The Residents Historical
- Commercial Album at RZWeb (archived via archive.org
- Commercial Album on Discogs
