Postman Drove A Caddy - Pere Ubu

I know it seemed like a good idea at the time

But, darling, I knew there was trouble bound to come

The postman drove a Caddy

A sunburned green

Rusted out land tug of a car

It seen to race across the ridge trailin clouds of dust and dogs

I knew there was trouble bound to come

Now, I saw the fact

The driver was a dog

The dog had a hat

The hat had a flat

It looked like a rat

The rat was on fire

Somehow I knew there was trouble bound to come

Now, that fire attracted the eye of a neighbor who

Turning away

Shook his head as he was heard to say

I don’t wanna know why

Which confused the pig

That ate the mailbox

That contained the letter that was lost by the post office for 40 years

Happenin to have been written by Albert Einstein

Ha!

Somehow I knew there was trouble bound to come

Now, in his declining years he had designed/devined a device from common

household items

Which by harnassing hitherto unknown forces in the universe could put a chicken

in every pot

And make it so that everyone could live a long long time without any trouble at

all

And in the process savin mankind from certain self-destruction

And enabling him to keep going more places forever

Mmmm, I knew there was trouble bound to come

Now, you understand, that whether or not this device would actually work was a

matter of absolute conjecture

Seeing as how Mr Einstein had buried the only plans

And working model

In a hole in the ground

I knew there was trouble bound to come

It had seemed like a good idea at the time

In fact what the letter did say

And would the recipient

A Mr Tesla

Please go out and dig it up right away?

But not to worry

Cuz even if this self-same letter was to be lost in the post you couldn’t miss

the two-foot high Martian standing there who promised to wait and not even

budge for 40 years

If he had to

But then he really had to get going

And by the way take him a couple apples

Or something

Because he really likes fruit

Sincerely yours

Albert Einstein

Somehow I knew there was trouble bound to come