Harry Nilsson - Flying Saucer Song Lyrics (ORIGINAL) from the album. Transcribed by Max R.
(horns, drums, funky guitar riffs and a waves of strumming run throughout the song.)
1: "Hey! happening?" 1) Oblio?
2: "Hey.. what's shaking? how's old lady?" 2) Arrow?
"Oh she's fine, you know... a little hemorrhoidal problem now and then, but you know i... [mumbles] "
"Oh so happenin'?"
"Ah nothin' much except um... I had a weird experience, the night..."
"Is right?"
"Yeah, you see um... I was along, you know, minding my own..."
"Yeah"
"I looked off to my right, an' I, saw strange light."
"A "
"That's Right.... So what happened, it got me thinkin' about this poem I read once."
"A huh?"
"Yeah, a poem. like... Late night in search of light. I watched a of fi ..You don't if I do this for ya do ya man?"
"Hey hey, no man I was only you on it's your record, you know what I mean? Carry on, do whatever you want..."
"Well Late night! in of light! I watched a ball of fire across the midnight sky! I it glow then grow then shrink then sink silhouette of morning, as I it die..
You know what I to myself I said Hey. I got a lot in with that light"
2: "That's right"
1: "Ya I'm alive! a fire, my life, it streaks across my of time, and is by those who "lift" their eyes, in of light, to them, the LONG! DARK! NIGHT!
"Hey you know alright, hehe"
"Well thanks man, it's just a poem I learned a long ago"
"It's still alright, but me somethin'. What happened?"
"Well you see... That wasn't the funny thing that happened to me, you see, the funny thing that happened to me was that.. Well it got me thinking about this man I met a few years back, in this bar sorta, and he uh.... Well he told me a sort of a strange uh... you know, flying story."
"Flying huh?"
"Yeah, ya see, one night he was along mindin' his own, and looked off to his right and he saw this strange light too."
"A right?"
"Right."
"So anyway, he started off to investigate this off to his right, right?"
"Right."
"Got about half way this field and... realized what he was doing, you know? I mean, I mean after all there he was in the middle of a field in the middle of the night investigating this weird light off to the right, right?
"Right. So happened?"
"Well, to make a long shor...uh, you know. Shorter, he split."
"Yo he split?"
"Yeah! You know... um {JESUS}..."
"All right so happened with you?"
"Well, I got to thinking of guy in the story, the poem and everything you know?"
"Yeah"
"Well, so I too, you understand?"
"You split..."
"Yeah I Split"
"Split."
"Split! S-P-L-I-T, Split!"
"Shit. Well I got to split now myself see, uh (chuckles) listen I hope your wife and your whatchamacallits get better fast, and all that.."
"Hey wait! wait a wai.. way..."
"Wait a minute for what What do think you're doin'? You turning in to crusades or something? That's the dumbest story I ever heard in my Life."
"Whachu Listen I'm tellin' you the truth!"
"That's nice, you know, but uh.. you ever hear the one about the guy a wooden eye?"
"Hey now do that to me man I mean... well let me put it this way."
"Listen, shit. You know You're CRAZY. You know that?"
"Wha... hey.. don't you call me crazy man... {Background screaming; "I love you"} Let me ask you somethin', what you have done man?"
"Well to begin I wouldn't have told this story, you understand?"
"That's easy for you to say but it to me, you know what I mean?"
"Hey listen man don't be asshole, you trying' to pull my..."
"Hey you ME and ASSHOLE?"
"No I'm just sayin' you're an ASSHOLE, sayi')"
3: BARTENDER: "Hey you guy.. Alright alright, let's clean up this language, clean it up, come on. Either you clean up this language or get out of this place."
1: "Hey man.. man me an ASSHOLE!"
3: BARTENDER: "Alright that's enough of those words! Now ya talk clean or ya get outta here!"
2: "I'm still sayin' ah... it's not me, it's just you ARE and ASSHOLE, understand?" (background screaming: "I want. I need, I love you!")
1: "Hey you know somethin?, you what's gonna happen to ya"
2: "Hey listen don't raise glass. Understand?"
1: "Hey... you know what I could do to you if I wanted t.... Hey.. you make me angry or nuthin'"
2: "yeah"
1:"I'm just to talk to you, you asked me, said 'how'm I doin' I said okay, you ask me how my lady was I told ya, said what's new. I'm tellin' ya about this story about what happened to me the other night! I was REALLY walking' along, I REALLY looked off to my right, I REALLY DID see a LIGHT off in the middle of the night off to my right. I REALLY did tell you EVERYTHING and THAT'S RIGHT! You Understand?!"
"Alright, all right, alright, all right I go now."
"GOD DAMNIT MAN! What are you doin' to me man, you're making me look a fool!"
2: "Oh easy man all you have to do is look in your own MIRROR..."
1: "Aye man!"
3: BARTENDER: "Watch language."
1: "Aye man, Didn't you hear me a while ago?"
3: BARTENDER: "Hey let me ask you somethin', are you a group or anything?"
1: "Group?"
3: Bartender: "Well I heard you ya singin' before, I I maybe ya's a group, you know?"
1: "Hey.. Hey why don't you just get paid? You serve the drinks, you know, you wipe them glasses leave us alone. Hey you know what? Let's go to some bar."
2: "Well alright."
(Background "LOVE!")
(FADES OUT)