Perfume - Pere Ubu

We pulled off the highway

Drove down Main Street

Found a one-pump

Where we gassed and asked where the food was

Like we knew we’d been expected all along

Lawyer had an office on the 2nd floor

Reached it from the outside up the stairs

Side of the wall

Just past there I looked down the street

The town disappeared into high plains

I knew that somewhere out there

A valley is filled with frozen clouds

Dust hangs in the air like it is perfume

No one is waiting

Does someone there know me?

I meant to write down the name of the town

I don’t remember the highway we took to get to it

Or where we went after I do remember

The frozen quality of the hours we stayed there

I remember the waitress and what Tom had to eat

I remember the faces of the other customers

Like they was my own family

I remember that just over the horizon there was a valley

Filled with frozen clouds

Dust hangs in the air like perfume