Say Goodbye

Pere Ubu · Tenement Year [2007]

The day recedes.

It slides across some boards.

Had some wings.

Had some dusty tides rollin' across the floor.

What a strange debris left on a foreign shore.

Who knows how it goes to go walkin' out of that door?

Say goodbye, how hard I try.

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 worth! Gimme words!"

Well, I heard a man did pray.

I've never known a fear like it, nothing left to say.

Say goodbye, how hard I try.

Say goodbye, how hard I try.



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



To get caught in the middle,

Neither night neither day well I,

I feel so broke up and it's harder to be sure when the

Whole wide world's slowly rollin' out of that door.

Say goodbye, how hard I try.

Say goodbye, how hard I try.



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

Am I a mule or a goat?

Or it's my heart that's bound to stay.

Why, I might be the barricuda's nearest next of kin.

Oh man, here it comes.

They say it's comin' on round again.

Say goodbye, how hard I try.

Say goodbye, how hard I try.

Say goodbye, how hard I try.

Say goodbye, how hard I try.