Pere Ubu Lyrics
Singles
(1975 - 2000)

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30 Seconds Over Tokyo (1975)

Flew off early in the haze of dawn
in a metal dragon locked in time
Skimming waves of an underground sea
in some kind of a dream world fantasy.

Sun a hot circle on a canopy
'25 a racing blot on a bright green sea
Ahead the dim blur of an alien land
Time to give ourselves to strange gods' hands.

Dark flak spiders bursting in the sky
reaching twisted claws on every side
No place to run No place to hide
No turning back on a suicide ride.

Toy city streets crawling through my sights
sprouting clumps of mushrooms like a world surreal
This dream won't ever end
Time seems like it'll never begin.

30 seconds and a one way ride
30 seconds and no place to hide
30 seconds over Tokyo.

Writers: Thomas - O'Connor - Laughner.
©1975 Fire Songs under license from Ubu Projex for North America, and Virgin Music-BMG VM Music Ltd. for Rest Of World.

Heart Of Darkness (1975)

Maybe you see further than I can see
Maybe things just look different
Maybe I'm nothing but a shadow on a wall
Maybe love's a tomb where you dance at night
Maybe sanctuary is electric light
I get so tired it's like I'm another man
Everything I see seems so underhanded
I don't see anything that I want.

Image - object or illusion? - Go down to the corner
where none of the faces fit a human form
where nothing I see there isn't deformed
where in a secret lab works a Doctor Moreau
No private eye's got to tell me it's a long goodbye
I get so tired it's like I'm another man
Everything I see seems so underhanded
I don't see anything that I want.

Writer: Herman - Laughner - Thomas - Wright.
©1975 Fire Songs under license from Ubu Projex for North America, and Virgin Music-BMG VM Music Ltd. for Rest Of World.

Final Solution

The girls won't touch me cuz I got a misdirection
Living at night isn't helping my complexion
The signs all say it's a social infection
A little bit of fun's never been an insurrection.

Mom threw me out til I get some pants that fit
She just don't approve of my strange kind of wit
I get so excited I always gotta lose it
then they pack me off and make me take the cure.

I don't need a cure
Don't need a cure
Need a final solution.

Buy me a ticket to a sonic reduction
Guitars goning to sound like a nuclear destruction
It seems I'm the victim of a natural selection
or maybe it's just a slide in another direction.

I don't need a cure
Don't need a cure
Need a final solution.

Writers: Thomas - Bell - Herman - Krauss - Laughner - Taylor - Wright
©1976 Fire Songs under license from Ubu Projex for North America, and Virgin Music-BMG VM Music Ltd. for Rest Of World.

Cloud 149 (1976)

Here she comes
She's okay
I can tell that she's okay
Then just as she walks by...

Be alright
Set her up
Just like some church
Don't ask me how.

Here she comes
It feels like heaven
There she goes
It's such a problem.

Oh Oh oh
Cloud
One-Four-Nine
Bye-bye 149.

Writers: Herman - Krauss - Laughner - Taylor - Thomas - Wright.
©1976 Fire Songs under license from Ubu Projex for North America, and Virgin Music-BMG VM Music Ltd. for Rest Of World.

My Dark Ages (I Don't Get Around) (1976)

In the dark I get so confused
I fall in love like I fall from grace
I wander round wonder where I went
I wander through the blank spaces
the empty places.

I don't get around and I don't fall in love.

I need a car that can get me around
at night in the city where the air can shine
We'll drive around
We'll fall in love
Things will be alright.

I don't get around and I don't fall in love... much.

Writers: Herman - Krauss - Maimone - Ravenstine - Thomas.
©1976 Fire Songs under license from Ubu Projex for North America, and Virgin Music-BMG VM Music Ltd. for Rest Of World.

Heaven (1977)

Here she comes walking with that solar beat
The sun does funny things like some prankster's cheat
I could swear the city's like a magic beach
Against the curb I can hear those street waves beat.

it feels like heaven
It's such a problem.

Mid-summer's night on a magic beach
The dreams that come to me don't look out of reach
In the mirror I can see the other face
If I sleep tonight I'll wake up in some other place.

it feels like heaven
It's such a problem.

Writers: Herman - Krauss - Maimone - Ravenstine - Thomas.
©1977 Fire Songs under license from Ubu Projex for North America, and Virgin Music-BMG VM Music Ltd. for Rest Of World.

Not Happy (1980)

Can't we be happy?
Can't we be happy like the swimming turtles?
Can't we be happy like the bumble bees on the River Tees?
When they buzz they buzz in harmonies
Can't we be happy like them?

I am happy when you are happy
and you are happy when I am happy
so let's be happy.

Can't we be happy?
Can't we be happy like the tiny mice?
Can't we be happy like the oddball birds of South America?
The oddball birds of South America are happy
Can't we be happy like them?

I am happy w hen you are happy
and you are happy when I am happy
so let's be happy.

Writers: Krauss - Maimone - Ravenstine - Thomas - Thompson.
©1980 Fire Songs under license from Ubu Projex for North America, and Virgin Music-BMG VM Music Ltd. for Rest Of World.

Lonesome Cowboy Dave (1980)

My name is David
I've got a hat the size of Oklahoma
I've got shoes that look like Florida
I've got a coat that is like California
I've got spurs on my feet.

Whoopie-ti-yi-yah.br> I guess I'm just a lonesome cowboy guy.

Writers: Krauss - Maimone - Ravenstine - Thomas - Thompson.
©1980 Fire Songs under license from Ubu Projex for North America, and Virgin Music-BMG VM Music Ltd. for Rest Of World.

Wasteland (2000)

All these things are made to take away
Where my heart resides they have laid to waste
They fill the time with hollow trash
I hear a ticking bomb I'm glad you asked.
I'm alive.

Way past Mars there's a world of fools
It seems to me they've been running out of rules
They spend their days working out alibis
I'm blinded by a single ray of light
I'm alive.

I'm smoking cigarettes and drinking rye
Just to be feeling human in the shattered light
I was born waiting for the lights to change.
I'm here heading into the rain
I'm alive.

Let's you and me get drunk and drive real fast.

Writers: Thomas - Mehlman - Herman - Jones - Wheeler.
©2000 Fire Songs under license from Ubu Projex


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