Pere Ubu - Electricity video free download

Album: Ray Gun Suitcase (1995)

Lyrics:

A city is the stones, not the people.

Why should it be?

People breed and die.

They come, and they go.

Faithless.

The stones speak.

A language of hopes and fears that nobody understands.

Like poetry.

Can a city die?

Probably not.

But like the insane do in their awful solitude it speaks only to itself.

Nobody understands.

Nobody understands.

All the words that we've cherished for so long fall on deaf ears.

Children, hear our hopes and fears.

Hope and fear.

And maybe after years the city does go mad too.

Whispering in the dark.

Strange talk.

Nobody understands.

Nobody understands.

All the words that we've cherished for so long fall on deaf ears.

Children, hear our hopes and fears.

Hope and fear.

The sun sets and people flee.

In the surrounding hills they huddle against the empty darkness round their suburban campfires.

Above in the sky the stars come undone.

Below in the city there's nothing but strange talk.

It feels like all the faded hopes that never were.