Susan's House

Beautiful Freak, Track 2

Susan's House Single, Track 1

Your Lucky Day in Hell Single, Track 2 (as "Susan's Apartment (Mike Simpson Remix)")

Oh What a Beautiful Morning, Track 16

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Lyrics

"Going over to susan's house, walking south down
Baxter street, nothing hiding behind this picket
fence. There's a crazy old woman smashing bottles 
on the sidewalk, where her house burnt down two 
years ago. People say that back then she really 
wasn't that crazy."

Going over to susan's house
Going over to susan's house
She's gonna make it right 

"Down by the donut prince a fifteen year old boy 
lies on the sidewalk with a bullet in his forehead. 
In a final act of indignity the paramedics take 
off all his clothes for the whole world to see 
while they put him in the bag. Meanwhile and old 
couple argues inside the queen bee, the sick 
fluorescent light shimmering on their skin."

Going over to susan's house
Going over to susan's house
I can't be alone tonight 

Take a left down echo park
A kid asks do I want some crack
TV sets are spewing baywatch 
Through the windows into black 

"Here comes a girl with long brown hair who can't
be more than seventeen. She sucks on a red popsicle
while she pushes a baby girl in a pink carriage and
I'm thinking that must be her sister, that must be
her sister, right? They go into the 7-11 and I keep
walking."

Going over to susan's house

Trivia

Was the first song that E had ever spoken, an experiment that worked.

Was the second single off the Beautiful Freak album. Convinced me to buy the album even though I didn't especially love the song.

My little brother loves this song.

Susan's House was actually in Pasadena, too far to walk to from Echo Park.

Finished 13th in the 3speed Best Eels Song poll 2000 and 15th in the 3speed Best Eels Song poll 2002.

Reached number 9 in the UK Chart and was in the charts for 5 weeks.