Harry Nilsson - Flying Saucer Lyrics (ORIGINAL) from the Sandman album. Transcribed by Max R.
(horns, drums, guitar riffs and a waves of violin/cello strumming run throughout the song.)
1: "Hey! what's happening?" 1)
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 what i... "
"Oh so happenin'?"
"Ah nothin' except um... I had a weird experience, the other night..."
"Is right?"
"Yeah, you see um... I was along, you know, minding my own..."
"Yeah"
"I off to my right, an' I, saw this strange light."
"A "
"That's Right.... So anyway what happened, it got me thinkin' about this poem I once."
"A huh?"
"Yeah, a poem. like... last night in search of light. I watched a of fi ..You mind if I do this for ya do ya man?"
"Hey hey, no man I was only puttin' you on it's your record, you know what I mean? Carry on, do you want..."
"Well Late night! in of light! I watched a ball of streak across the midnight sky! I it glow then grow then shrink then into silhouette of morning, as I it die..
You know what I said to I said Hey. I got a lot in common with light"
2: "That's right"
1: "Ya I'm alive! a fire, my life, it streaks my span 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 tell me somethin'. happened?"
"Well you see... That wasn't the funny thing that happened to me, you see, the funny thing that 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 saucer 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 off to investigate this light off to his right, right?"
"Right."
"Got about half way across 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 of the night investigating this weird light off to the right, right?
"Right. So happened?"
"Well, to make a story shor...uh, you know. Shorter, he split."
"Yo he split?"
"Yeah! You know... um {JESUS}..."
"All right so what happened 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 real fast, and all that.."
"Hey wait! a minute wai.. way..."
"Wait a minute for what man? What do 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 the guy with a wooden eye?"
"Hey now don't do that to me man I mean... let me put it this way."
"Listen, shit. You somethin'? You're CRAZY. You know that?"
"Wha... hey.. you call me crazy man... {Background screaming; "I love you"} Let me ask you somethin', what would you have done man?"
"Well to with 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 some asshole, you trying' to my..."
"Hey you ME and ASSHOLE?"
"No I'm just sayin' an ASSHOLE, you're sayi')"
3: BARTENDER: "Hey you guy.. Alright alright alright, let's clean up this language, clean it up, come on. Either you clean up this or get out of this place."
1: "Hey man.. man me an ASSHOLE!"
3: BARTENDER: "Alright that's enough of those words! Now either ya talk or ya get outta here!"
2: "I'm still sayin' ah... it's not me, it's just that you ARE and ASSHOLE, understand?" (background screaming: "I want. I need, I you!")
1: "Hey you somethin?, you know what's gonna happen to ya"
2: "Hey listen raise that glass. Understand?"
1: "Hey... you know what I could do to you if I wanted t.... Hey.. you don't me angry or nuthin'"
2: "yeah"
1:"I'm just tryin' 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 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 like a fool!"
2: "Oh that's easy man all you have to do is in your own MIRROR..."
1: "Aye man!"
3: BARTENDER: "Watch language."
1: "Aye man, you hear me singin' a while ago?"
3: "Hey let me ask you guys somethin', are you a group or anything?"
1: "Group?"
3: Bartender: "Well I heard you ya singin' before, I I thought maybe 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 what? Let's go to some other bar."
2: "Well alright."
(Background "LOVE!")
(FADES OUT)