Another reason to be proud of my Cleveland heritage is Pere Ubu, a band that organized in my home town in 1975, when I was still living there. Click here for a video of Pere Ubu, with front man David Thomas, performing on Night Music, a short-lived television show hosted by David Sanborn. The song is "Breath," from Cloudland (1989). Here are the lyrics, from the Pere Ubu web site:
"Dog day afternoon by the sea.
I think about you.
What am I gonna do?
Sorrow's hangin over me.
"Let me walk with you cuz it's breaking my heart.
The things that we had,
the good and the bad -- now it's parking lots.
Don't let's talk about tomorrow --
Baby, standin at the edge of sorrow.
Let's watch the whole world goin slow.
Let's watch the whole world goin.
"I know my way round town.
Used to live around here.
I know the sites to see,
the things they mean to me,
and how we tore it down.
Let me walk with you cuz it's breaking my heart.
The things that we had,
the good and the bad -- now it's parking lots.
Don't let's talk about tomorrow --
Baby, standin at the edge of sorrow.
Let's watch the whole world just goin slow.
Let's watch the whole world goin slow."
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I saw that performance and thought it was amazing - and undescribable! Found it 20 years later! Greatest moment on Sanborn's show. A hidden treasure!
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