We Have The Technology - Pere Ubu

How I wish we could take this moment

and freeze it To come back again and again and again

To hold it to the light

Turn it in our hands

To study all the angles

To find out how

and Why

it’s gotta go the way that it goes

We have the technology

not available before

We have the technology

But thinkers and poets of the past

Oh, no They had to leap into the dark so blindly

Whereas we’ll stand free and upright like men

The day’s golden light!

Linked with our machines our eyes are beaming

It won’t matter at all

How weird

things are seeming

We need the means to dig deeper

To search below the surface appearance of things

Worlds never dreamed of!

What a wonderful life if, darling

that moment

Might be found wherein we come unstuck

completely:

Flap A from Slot B,

slapping in the wind!