Pere Ubu Lyrics
20 Years In A Montana Missile Silo
(2011)
Monkey Bizness
Go baby goFlow baby flow
I've got to see what you might mean to me.
Flow baby flow
Go baby go
Sex clowns bounce around.
Monkeys and clowns will bounce around
Brown shoes don't make it
Stay sick Why fake it?
Writers: Pere Ubu
© 2017 Cherry Red Songs, under license from Ubu Projex
Funk 49
I got a bit of soulI keep it in a cage
I feed it parrot food
I keep it tame.
Some days I let it fly
Then it's a bird of prey
It hunts for blood
I let it hunt for blood.
It's not a song you want to sing along to
You don't want to get these thoughts inside your head.
Writers: Pere Ubu
© 2017 Cherry Red Songs, under license from Ubu Projex
Prison Of The Senses
I don't know if it's a green or blueI don't know if it's in love with you
That's the prism of the senses
That's the prison of the senses.
Something far away has come to me
I know the sum of the parts - The contingencies
I don't know if it's a picking at food
I would deny it - That I don't know what is true
I take the time to refine a better run out to sea
The attitude - opportunity knocks
That's the prism of the senses
That's the prison of the senses.
When the fray is too big to unwind
and all the rain is the color of time
You demand that the whatsits is you
I say Oh lord I knew
While I lean on the remnants of a fractured plan
I will learn all the regions on the side of a can
That's the prism of the senses
That's the prison of the senses.
That's the kingdom of the senses.
Writers: Pere Ubu
© 2017 Cherry Red Songs, under license from Ubu Projex
Toe To Toe
20 years of a living hellat the bottom of a missile well
20 years a forgotten son
staring at the key to Kingdom Come.
20 years toe to toe with Uncle Joe.
Honey I'm the man you know so well
but which part of me is hard to tell
I'm the man who will get things done
One and one and one is one.
I spent 20 years toe to toe with Uncle Joe
For this.
20 years in a living hell
at the bottom of a missile well
20 years a forgotten son
staring at the border of the Kingdom Come.
20 years toe to toe with Uncle Joe.
Writers: Pere Ubu
© 2017 Cherry Red Songs, under license from Ubu Projex
The Healer
What happens when you're too youngThe vision that becomes too strong
The thing that you see too far?
It's not because you're just too young
It's not because you're just too stupid to know better
It's just bad luck.
And I see too much
I see too much.
It's about being in the wrong place at the wrong time
and that's just too bad
I'll be dead too soon
I'll be dead nowhere soon enough.
And I see too far
I see too much
It's been going on too long.
And I see too much
I see too much.
Writers: Pere Ubu
© 2017 Cherry Red Songs, under license from Ubu Projex
Swampland
M-A-NI spell it out for you.
I'm the one who is on your side
I'm the one who is not on your side
I'm the one who don't care about you
I'm the one who loves you through and through.
Writers: Pere Ubu
© 2017 Cherry Red Songs, under license from Ubu Projex
Lyrics by David Thomas
Plan From Frag 9
I am like a pencilThere's two ways to look at it
One - you got the sharp part
It leaves a mark
Two - you got the pushy part
It takes the mark away
Sharp part - Pushy part.
I am like a pencil.
Writers: Pere Ubu
© 2017 Cherry Red Songs, under license from Ubu Projex
Howl
I'm gonna howl for you babyIm gonna prowl
I'm gonna howl for you baby
Like the Wolf
Dangerous.
I'm gonna prowl for you baby
Between Never and Not
I'm gonna prowl for you baby
In the zone that's between Never and Not
Let's just keep this between the two of us hunh?
I'm gonna make you mine
Ain't nothing wrong with that.
Writers: Pere Ubu
© 2017 Cherry Red Songs, under license from Ubu Projex
Red Eye Blues
Mr. Franklin is my middle nameI ride the road through the hollow rain.
I got a stone in my head
I got a storm in my heart
I'm snowblind in the hollering dark
I'm chasing time and I'm coming apart.
Might be me - I might be free
Another bug on the itchy tree
Who knows what I'm talking about?
I dodge lassos - I got the red eye blues.
Grab me baby or it's too late
Look out honey here comes your fate.
Writers: Pere Ubu
© 2017 Cherry Red Songs, under license from Ubu Projex
Walking Again
Come on baby that's what I sayCome on baby you're gonna walk this way
We're gonna see
We're gonna say what's on our mind
We're gonna see
Gonna be a good time.
Come on baby please don't delay
I'm the one for you in almost every way.
Come on baby that is what I say
Come on baby I see you wanna walk this way.
Gonne be good
Nobody said it'd be bad
It's gonna be good
Gonna be the best time that you ever had
I guess
I don't know.
Come on baby that is what I say
Come on baby why don't you just walk this way?
Writers: Pere Ubu
© 2017 Cherry Red Songs, under license from Ubu Projex
I Can Still See
I can still seeOh how the world still offends me
So it's good to know
There's a science of time
when some people say It's time to let go.
I can still see
that picture of you and me
It's carved in my head
with a knife that's kept in my head
I can still see
I can still see
It's time to let go
It's carved in my head
With a knife that's kept in my head
I can still see.
Writers: Pere Ubu
© 2017 Cherry Red Songs, under license from Ubu Projex
Cold Sweat
Hold me closeI feel the time running out
I know you must feel it too.
I feel the notion to dive in an ocean
I am the diving duck for a new day
that we will never see.
Street lamps call to me
The night breaths slow
The river winds.
It's a stage - here we stand
The words come to me
Like I learned the lines by rote.
Thank you
You've been great and I really mean that
I love you so.
Hold me close
I feel the time running away
I know you must feel it too.
Sometimes I feel an ocean
Hold me close.
Writers: Pere Ubu
© 2017 Cherry Red Songs, under license from Ubu Projex
