Pere Ubu Lyrics
Dub Housing
(1978)
Navvy
I've got these arms and legs that flip-flopI have desire
Freedom!
I have desire
Somewhere to go.
Boy that sounds swell.
In my ears I heard a hurricane grow
I have desire
Freedom!
I have desire
Somewhere to go.
Boy that sounds swell.
Writers: Herman - Krauss - Maimone - Ravenstine - Thomas
©1979 Fire Songs under license from Ubu Projex for North America, and Virgin Music-BMG VM Music Ltd. for Rest Of World
On The Surface
I heard the radio sunMade the day like a beach
Lost and in love I was sand in the surf
I heard talk
Talk like music
I heard talk
It was a day like a beach.
No cuts
No revisions
I was saying
At the curb I was swaying
I was wave-washed
Wave-washed
Knocked down.
Writers: Herman - Krauss - Maimone - Ravenstine - Thomas
©1979 Fire Songs under license from Ubu Projex for North America, and Virgin Music-BMG VM Music Ltd. for Rest Of World
Dub Housing
Have you heard about this house?Inside a thousand voices talk
That talk echoes around and around
The windows reverberate
The walls have ears
A thousand saxophone voices talk.
You should hear how we syllogize
You should hear
About how Babel fell and still echoes away
How we idolize theorize syllogize
In the dark
In the heart.
All I hear is
Talk
That talk echoes around and around
Hear the sound of the jibberty jungle
In the dark a thousand insect voices
Chitter-chatter.
The sun goes up
goes over
goes down
I seek sleep
I sleep
I forget.
Writers: Herman - Krauss - Maimone - Ravenstine - Thomas
©1979 Fire Songs under license from Ubu Projex for North America, and Virgin Music-BMG VM Music Ltd. for Rest Of World
Caligari's Mirror
What do you do with a drunken sailor?Who do you see in Caligari's mirror?
How do you like those pranksters' cheats?
Hey hey Boozie sailors
Missed the boat
What to do?
Hey hey Woozie sailors
What a mess
Tie them down.
Walked around took a bus
Took a bus walked around.
What do you do with a drunken sailor?
Who do you see in Caligari's mirror?
How do you like those pranksters' cheats so early in the morning?
Hey hey Oozie sailors
Up she rises out the door!
Writers: Herman - Krauss - Maimone - Ravenstine - Thomas
©1979 Fire Songs under license from Ubu Projex for North America, and Virgin Music-BMG VM Music Ltd. for Rest Of World
I Will Wait
The sun never sets on this world I have foundThere's no reason
No no reason
That's no reason to doubt.
I saw secret scenes in the cracks of the cities
secret scenes in the seams of the world
I, Will Wait
I will wait.
I believe in practicalities
Practicalities are possibilities
I, Will Wait
I will wait.
This occurs – Idle eyes idolize.
Writers: Herman - Krauss - Maimone - Ravenstine - Thomas
©1979 Fire Songs under license from Ubu Projex for North America, and Virgin Music-BMG VM Music Ltd. for Rest Of World
Drinking Wine Spodyody
I see her nearly everydayJust a girl but she's okay
I figure if she's heaven sent
new disclosures should be imminent
Real strain could be evident
Metaphysics would be provident
I'd sure to be obedient
I'd love to be penitent.
Here she comes
There she goes
Cloud One Four Nine.
Writers: Herman - Krauss - Maimone - Ravenstine - Thomas
©1979 Fire Songs under license from Ubu Projex for North America, and Virgin Music-BMG VM Music Ltd. for Rest Of World
(Pa) Ubu Dance Party
I did not see the darkened skyI did not feel the pressure drop
I walked down the primrose path
I strolled along the garden walk
The rain fell and washed away
I built on sand
I was swept away.
I went out and stirred the air
My soup was steeped in strange ideas
I breathed in
I breathed out
The rain fell and washed away
I built on sand
It got swept away.
I went out and looked around
I went out
I came back
I walked down the primrose path
I strolled along the garden walk
The rain fell and washed away
My bed of sand got swept away.
Writers: Herman - Krauss - Maimone - Ravenstine - Thomas
©1979 Fire Songs under license from Ubu Projex for North America, and Virgin Music-BMG VM Music Ltd. for Rest Of World
Blow Daddy-o
I blow my hornIt goes Me-me-me.
I blow my horn
It goes I-yi-yi.
Writers: Herman - Krauss - Maimone - Ravenstine - Thomas
©1979 Fire Songs under license from Ubu Projex for North America, and Virgin Music-BMG VM Music Ltd. for Rest Of World
Codex
I think about you all the timeI did this and I went there
and I think about you all of the time.
The day fades away
The night passes over
and I think about you all of the time.
Here come my shoes
Here comes me
One, two. One...
Step after step
Block after block
I think about you.
I hear I say
I see I do
I think about you.
Writers: Herman - Krauss - Maimone - Ravenstine - Thomas
©1979 Fire Songs under license from Ubu Projex for North America, and Virgin Music-BMG VM Music Ltd. for Rest Of World
