Secrets

"Secrets" is the seventh track on The Residents' Commercial Album, recorded in 1979 and released by Ralph Records on October 1980. Like all other songs from the album, it is exactly one minute long.

Music video

A short film was created for the song by amateur filmmakers The Penguin Bros. for the Commercial DVD in 2004.

Lyrics

Something's going on between them
Something I can see
Nobody seems to pay attention
So it's up to me
They're always touching
Always looking
In a secret way
I thought that I might cut them deep 

List of releases

• Commercial Album (1980)
• Commercial DVD (2004)
• Commercial Album pREServed (2019) ^{(2023 LP only)}
• Commercial Book bonus disc (2024)

External links and references

• Commercial Album at The Residents Historical
• Commercial Album at RZWeb (archived via archive.org
• Commercial Album on Discogs

Commercial Album (1980) Side A: "Easter Woman" · "Perfect Love" · "Picnic Boy" · "End of Home" · "Amber" · "Japanese Watercolor" · "Secrets" "Die in Terror" · "Red Rider" · "My Second Wife" · "Floyd " · "Suburban Bathers" · "Dimples and Toes" · "The Nameless Souls" "Love Leaks Out" · "Act of Being Polite" · "Medicine Man" · "Tragic Bells" · "Loss of Innocence" · "The Simple Song" Side B: "Ups and Downs" · "Possessions" · "Give It to Someone Else" · "Phantom" · "Less Not More" · "My Work Is So Behind" · "Birds in the Trees" "Handful of Desire" · "Moisture" · "Love Is..." · "Troubled Man" · "La La" · "Loneliness" · "Nice Old Man" "The Talk of Creatures" · "Fingertips" · "In Between Dreams" · "Margaret Freeman" · "The Coming of the Crow" · "When We Were Young" Personnel The Residents · Fred Frith · Snakefinger · Don Jackovich · Chris Cutler Sandy Sandwich · Mud's Sis · Nessie Lessons · Lene Lovich · David Byrne · Brian Eno Related works "Electronic Elaborate Waste" · "Kraftwerk" · "Cosmetics For Reality" · "Rosco's Righteous Rodent" · "Pretty Baby" · "Tuxedos" "No Longer Unused" · "Instant Hostility" · "Elevator Lady" · "One Minute Movies" · Commercial Single ("Shut Up Shut Up" / "And I Was Alone") · "Boy In Love" · Minatures ("We're A Happy Family") · "Talkin' in the Town" · "Womb To Worm" · Greener Postures · "Theme For An American TV Show" · Ralph Radio Special · "Commercial Suite" · Commercial DVD · Commercial Album by The 180 Gs · The Commercial Single Commercials (In Mono) · Commercial Book (Commercial Album Radio Ads) Related articles Ralph Records · The Cryptic Corporation · Grove St. studio · Poor No Graphics · Buy Or Die 1980½ · Diskomo/Goosebump‏‏‎