Say Goodbye - Pere Ubu

The day recedes

It slides across some boards

Had some wings

Had some dusty tides rolling across the floor

What a strange debris left on a forign shore!

Who knows how it goes to go walking out that door?

Say goodbye

How hard I try

Some air to breathe

There’s no one half so sure

As a drowning man

Who knows he’s coming on up for more

Gimme words!

Gimme words please

I heard a man did pray

Oh I never known a fear like it

Nothing left to say

How can I leave you when you won’t go away?

To get caught in the middle

Neither night, neither day?

I fell so broke up and it’s harder to be sure

But the whole wide world’s got to be

Rolling out of that door

How can I leave you when you won’t go away?

Am I am mule?

Or a goat?

Or it’s my heart that’s bound to stay

I might be the barricuda’s nearest next of kin!

Oh man, here it comes

I said, it’s coming around again