Prison of the Senses - Pere Ubu

I don’t know if it’s a green or blue

I don’t know if it’s in love with you

That’s the prism of the senses

Yeah, that’s the prison of the senses

Something far away has come to me

I know the sum of the parts, the contingencies

I don’t know if it’s a picking at food

I would deny it, that I don’t know what is true

I take the time to refine a better run out to sea

The attitude, opportunity knocks

That’s the prism of the senses

Yeah, that’s the prison of the senses

When the fray is too big to unwind

and all the rain is the color of time

You demand that the whatsits is you

I say, Oh lord, I knew

While I lean on the remnants of a fractured plan

I will learn all the regions on the side of a can

That’s the prism of the senses

Yeah, that’s the prison of the senses

That’s the kingdom of the senses

Yeah, dowgie

Yeah, dowgie