Residents - Hard And Tenderly lyrics

They called me "Mr. X, Indeed", the special ones that saw so deep inside the souls of those who were so lonely. I was down beneath the bottom, when my vacant staring caught them gaily parading up and down the street-followed by some stinking ma**es, freeing fumes and giving ga**es to the brown and nearly worn out air. But they had that certain presence like the ether or the essence of the cleansing upper atmosphere. Laughing, loving, and without a doubt, they simply strode about the streets that other creatures left alone. I ran across, myself compulsive, with the feeling of a pulsing drum that pounded underneath my skin. A tingling in my tangled brain was screaming that this was insane, but it also told me, "Touch it," too. "Stand aside," I told the ma**es, and with that I made my pa**age frome lonely to the only side. Openly they smiled to greet me, like they always knew they'd meet me somewhere walking up and down the road. I knew I must appear as someone far beyond the common come-on, so I could not say my nae was Ed. So I said, "I'm Mr. X who wants to come and who expects to help and guide your efforts to succeed." They laughed a little bit at me, and then said, "Mr. X-Indeed," and hugged me somehow hard and tenderly. --------------------------------------------------------------------------