Pere Ubu Lyrics
Worlds In Collision
(1991)
Oh Catherine
Oh CatherineI was out on the river
Stuck on a raft
Swept out to sea
Don't know how to get back
Like a house on a hill
I remember you still.
Oh Catherine
I was riding a blue train
Flat out on the rails
I looked out the window
I was living in hotels
A house on a hill
I remember you still.
I ain't ever getting home
You ain't ever gonna know
How I tried to love you
I ain't ever getting home
Now that I only know
what I used to know
It's like I live in a ghost tale.
Catherine
There's a place in my heart
the years don't go
The days pass it by
You never grow old
Like a house on a hill
I remember you still.
I ain't ever getting home
You ain't ever gonna know the story.
Writers: Feldman - Jones - Krauss - Maimone - Thomas.
©1991 Ubu Projex.
I Hear They Smoke The Barbecue
I lie awakeI was waiting for the clouds to break
No doubt you've heard
About the door in through the Northern Pole
It's hard to believe
Are there people living underneath?
I hear they live on fruit and air
I hear they love ole Yogi Bear
I hear they're good at parking cars
I hear they want to be like we are.
They'll move next door
They'll be a part of the neighborhood
As sad as we are
The company must love the misery
Now we're on the darkside of forever
I fear them hard times are beginning for real
I hear their sky is pink all day
I hear they love ole Yogi Bear
I hear they sneak around at night
I hear they want to be like we are.
We stay up late
Waiting for the clouds to break
Through the barbecue smoke
Men from Mars? It's no joke
We're not alone
Eager eyes watch the sky
My new buddies and me
We say Misery must love company
Now we're on the darkside of forever
I hear them hard times are beginning for real.
I lie awake waiting for the clouds to beak.
Writers: Feldman - Jones - Krauss - Maimone - Thomas.
©1991 Ubu Projex.
Turpentine!
I fell out of bedA terrible thought bounced a path straight across the room
Throwed out the coffee to drink the soap
I run because I have to know.
Down by the riverside
in the shade of the piney tree
I throw down my head and cry
I know what the whole world needs.
Turpentine
Turpentine is fine.
Train on the water a river shakes
Flood out the valley a big ole snake
Hear it breathe Feel it shake
The sound it makes is a wild wind.
Call out to me if you see that train
Trailed by a whiff of a turpentine
I know what I know and I knew what I'd see
The kind of a woman that you meant to be.
Writers: Feldman - Jones - Krauss - Maimone - Thomas.
©1991 Ubu Projex.
Goodnite Irene
Treat me like a carnival Rain Kingwho blew apart in his own hurricane
He's laughing loud a fool on the hill
who should know better and he never will.
It's my calling and I'm falling
Driven by the will of the wind
And I know it.
Treat me like a king bee
bugging round in a hollow tree
He's living high on borrowed time
intoxicated by the sound of his own crying.
It's my calling and I'm falling
Had I fought it?
Driven by the will of the wind.
Goodnite Irene
I'll see you in my dreams
I play the part you know so well
Long live carnival Rain King
King Bee
the King Of Mars
They're all like me.
Treat me like the King Of Mars
He fell to earth
Ended up behind bars
He tried to live in a one horse town
His broken heart tore the whole thing down.
It's my calling and I'm falling
Driven by the will of the wind.
Writers: Feldman - Jones - Krauss - Maimone - Thomas.
©1991 Ubu Projex.
Mirror Man
Mirror Mirror ManEyes about as wide as they can
Blue sand
River's gone black
Big sky
Bought a pink cadillac.
He's rolling
He's reeling
How long will long be like?
Who will?
Because I know who won't
Who lies to you?
I know.
Mirror Mirror Man
The naked truth
Or the face of the land
He reads the mirror
He knocked it back
He sees the face of the refugee.
I know that a man is like a mirror
A man is like a need
The naked truth
Or the faith of the land
The haunted heart of a refugee.
Mirror Mirror Man
He's a ghost on the face of a neon land
Bound to be like someone I know
Says the Haunted Heart
To the Narrow Road.
He's rolling
He's reeling
How long will long be like?
Who will? Because I know who won't
Who waits for you?
I know.
Mirror Mirror Man
I see the face of a haunted land.
Writers: Feldman - Jones - Krauss - Maimone - Thomas.
©1991 Ubu Projex.
Cry Cry Cry
You know my nameYou've heard my records
You've seen me pass through your town
You know me
I cry cry cry.
I'm bound to wear sadness for a crown
I'm bound to own an embroidered coat
It's starry with the lights of them jewel-like tears
that I cry cry cry
I cry cry cry.
I play the part called A Broken Man
All I've got to do is act naturally
The lines are the ones everybody knows
I cry cry cry
Cry cry cry.
Wen you left me my heart burst
I wandered the land a marked man
Burdened by a terrible secret
Hard times have driven me from door to door
and made me a spectacle.
I'm bound to bear silence to the grave
I'm bound to play the part
Makes a man a slave
Nobody knows but I know
and I cry cry cry.
Writers: Cutler - Feldman - Jones - Krauss - Maimone - Thomas.
©1991 Ubu Projex.
Worlds In Collision
Any day is half a nightI'll be the moon
You hold the light
You don't wanna know what's been beached on the sand
The worse it gets the more I understand.
Les haricots sont pas salé
Something weird is coming this way
Cling to me
I will cover you
Don't it seem to be like a honeymoon?
Mountains rumble Rivers sway
Run to me
There's a storm on the way
You don't wanna be alone with the truth on the lam
The worse it gets the more I understand.
Is it a dream? Darkly so
Smiles all around
Maybe nobody knows
You don't wanna be near when the fear grips the land
The worse it gets the more I understand.
Les haricots sont pas salé
Something weird is coming this way.
Writers: Feldman - Jones - Krauss - Maimone - Thomas.
©1991 Ubu Projex.
Life Of Riley
Somebody better put out the catSomebody better wind the clock
Somebody better shut out the light
Somebody better wake me up.
Since she's gone it's a new world
Nobody's ever gonna be the same
Ain't nobody better cry me a river
Ain't nobody better cry me a sea
Every day is a holiday.
Gentle hands of time come to me
Why don't you soothe my furrowed brow?
Ain't nobody better say to me
How I mighta done better
I don't know how.
Somebody better go fetch the beer
Somebody better come in out of the rain
I hear the sound of somebody leaving
Reminds me of that best ole friend of mine.
Somebody better fetch that TV over here
Somebody better Go Fish.
Writers: Feldman - Jones - Krauss - Maimone - Thomas.
©1991 Ubu Projex.
Over The Moon
I want to be like you areI want to rewrite your name
I want to live in the heart of someone
Ride that mystery train.
Only you and I will know it
We lived like we never belonged
On the night we went falling
We were too tired of just hanging on.
I want to be like a house on a hill
I want the clouds in my eyes
I want to live like them people in love
I see advertized.
I want to be like the moon
I want to roll through the harvest sky
I want to look down on your house
Be the moonbeam in your eyes.
Writers: Feldman - Jones - Krauss - Maimone - Thomas.
©1991 Ubu Projex.
Don't Look Back
I'm on fire now I knowDig that crazy knocking on the doors
I do believe that smell of rain's
Oughta bound to be I bet
A hurricane.
If I try to remind you
Don't it feel like the rain?
Don't look back
Don't you know
I'm bound to be on the last train of the season.
Count the reasons
Thee I know
Valerie we'll never meet again.
Come on Don't be slow
The porter's calling
It's time to go
Next stop I don't know
Wherever it goes we're going home.
I fear I know
The things I hope
I lie awake
Listening for my heart to break.
I don't know if it's snowing
There's a chill settled in my bones
Not a bird
Not a sound
There's nothing moving in the whole town.
Count the reasons
Thee I know
Valerie we'll never meet again.
Writers: Cutler - Feldman - Jones - Krauss - Maimone - Thomas.
©1991 Ubu Projex.
Playback
I don't know much about historyThe how and why of it
Or all the mysteries
I hear some people saying
She might not be the one
Anyway I...
I know a bit about how hard it can be
Yet I make her to be
Like I wanted the world to be
Meanwhile I should have known
Hearts are treacherous
and have a life of their own.
Feel like I'm believing in her
Feel like the raging sea
Feel like nobody's fool
Am I falling? [PLAYBACK]
Am I falling? [PLAYBACK]
Am I free?
I don't know much about the lay of the land
You start in the middle
You do the best you can
Some days I can see the signs
It's remarkable
When love is not only blind
How wide? How long? How high?
How strong?
Some days I think I see the light
It's remarkable
When love is not only blind.
Feel like I'm playing hurt
Feel like no setting sun
Feel like I've always known
Am I falling? [PLAYBACK]
Am I falling? [PLAYBACK]
Am I free?
I don't know much about biology
When the cut isn't deep they say
Oughta let it bleed
I don't know much about broken hearts
When a heart falls apart
Will we still be who we are?
Falling
Am I? [PLAYBACK]
Falling
Am I? [PLAYBACK]
Am I free?
Writers: Feldman - Jones - Krauss - Maimone - Thomas.
©1991 Ubu Projex.
Nobody Knows
Here's a story about a man named FredHe heard a bell when he went to bed
He woke up at a quarter past three
Found himself at the bottom of the sea.
Don't laugh till you hear the truth
Man found his heart nearly broken in two
All the fish come from miles around
He is the party in their one horse town.
Nobody knows all the troubles I've seen
Just outside I know
It's the trail of the tears
I hear the call of the road.
Here's a bit about a brother Bill
Had a house at the top of the hill
Wife had to better cry her a river
She fell in love with an indian giver.
Here's a ditty about a guy named Dave E
Had a life like to drive him crazy
Don't you see it's a bitter pill
To never know what lies over the hill?
Don't laugh till you hear the truth
About a man found his heart nearly broken in two
You don't believe how it came to be?
He bought a ranch at the bottom of the sea.
Nobody knows all the troubles I've seen.
Writers: Feldman - Jones - Krauss - Maimone - Thomas.
©1991 Ubu Projex.
Winter In The Firelands
Winter in the FirelandsA summer of lies
Somewhere the truth
Between them has died
A man for the season
A man for the test
Put out the lights on leaving
Abandon the past
I want to be the one
The only one.
A road through the Firelands
A mark in the snow
That's where the lonely people
Bury their hope
Turn back the hands of time
Turn back the kiss of faith
Turn back the eyes of justice
Shoot out the lights and wait
I want to be the one
The only one.
Writers: Cutler - Feldman - Jones - Krauss - Maimone - Thomas.
©1991 Ubu Projex.
Around The Fire
Don't gather by the river
Maybe no one will understand
Don't race down to the sea
You don't want to know
What's been washed up on the sand.
Don't gather round the fire
Don't run into the smoke
Don't worry baby
It wasn't anyone we even know
It's not anywhere that we'd want to go.
Don't worry about the blood
It rains like that everyday
Don't worry about them frogs
And mud and worms
I've seen it rain like that before.
Stand by
Stand by
Stand by your man.
Writers: Cutler - Feldman - Jones - Krauss - Maimone - Thomas.
©1991 Ubu Projex.
Down By The River
Down by the riverThe corn is creeping
I cry for my lover
My lover's sleeping
As bad as it gets
It's getting worse
I want to run
I had to learn to crawl first.
The house on fire
The treaty's broken
I call for the law
The law has spoken
As bad as it gets
It's getting worse
I want to run
I had to learn to crawl first.
The trip is the worst
I don't mean maybe
I cry for the captain
She cries like a baby
As bad as it gets
It's getting worse
I want to run
I had to learn to crawl first.
I might've not known
I might've not guessed
I might've been fine
If you'd never confessed
As bad as it gets
It's getting worse
I want to run
I had to learn to crawl first.
Bye-bye baby goodbye
It's time to leave and I don't know why.
Writers: Cutler- Feldman - Jones - Krauss - Maimone - Thomas.
©1991 Ubu Projex.
Like A Rolling Stone
I hope some people sayHe's a wild one
Anyway
You know I'm a rolling stone
You know I been born to be alone
I'm just happy to be free
A cartoon sailor on a cartoon sea.
Bombay Talinn
Pretty places that I've never seen
You know I been born to roam
I grab my hat
That's my home
I wonder how I know
I hang my hat
It's time to go.
Who knows the hearts of men?
I've heard it all
Then again
You see I been born to run
You know I'm a seven son
I'm just happy to be free
A cartoon sailor on a cartoon sea.
Writers: Cutler - Feldman - Jones - Krauss - Maimone - Thomas.
©1991 Ubu Projex.
Invisible Man
Welcome back to the land of thrillsNo one here's born to pay them bills
Ever gonna be the same
Smokestack Lightnin' drive them razor trains.
Turn back
Turn back the hands of time
Pass the word around them golden pools
I been elected to the king of the fools.
I'm living like a hollow man
hiding out in a hollow land.
The less I see the more I know.
The more I stay here the less I show.
Write a song about a widow's kiss
Go sing it in the wilderness
I know that stuff about them howling wheels
About the pain that time won't heal.
Writers: Cutler - Feldman - Jones - Krauss - Maimone - Thomas.
©1991 Ubu Projex.
