Harry Nilsson - Saucer Song Lyrics (ORIGINAL) from the Sandman album. Transcribed by Max R.
(horns, drums, funky riffs and a waves of violin/cello strumming run throughout the song.)
1: "Hey! happening?" 1) Oblio?
2: "Hey.. what's how's your 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' 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' this poem I read once."
"A huh?"
"Yeah, a poem. like... Late last 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 puttin' you on 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 watched it glow grow then then sink into silhouette of morning, as I it die..
You know what I said to myself I 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 seen by who "lift" their eyes, in of light, to them, the LONG! DARK! NIGHT!
"Hey you that's alright, hehe"
"Well thanks man, it's just a poem I a long time 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 happened to me was that.. Well it got me thinking about this man I met a few years back, in 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 walking' along mindin' his own, and looked off to his right and he saw this strange too."
"A right?"
"Right."
"So anyway, he off to investigate this light off to his right, right?"
"Right."
"Got about half way across this 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 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 better fast, and all that.."
"Hey wait! wait a wai.. way..."
"Wait a minute for what man? What do think you're doin'? You turning in to crusades or something? That's the dumbest story I ever in my Life."
"Whachu Listen I'm tellin' you the truth!"
"That's nice, you know, but uh.. you ever the one about the guy with a wooden eye?"
"Hey now don't do that to me man I mean... well let me put it way."
"Listen, shit. You somethin'? You're CRAZY. You know that?"
"Wha... hey.. don't you call me crazy man... {Background "I love you"} Let me ask you somethin', what would you have done man?"
"Well to begin with I have told this story, you understand?"
"That's easy for you to say but it happened to me, you what I mean?"
"Hey man don't be some asshole, you trying' to pull my..."
"Hey you ME and ASSHOLE?"
"No I'm sayin' you're 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 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 either ya talk clean or ya get here!"
2: "I'm still sayin' ah... it's not me, it's that you ARE and ASSHOLE, understand?" (background screaming: "I want. I need, I love you!")
1: "Hey you know somethin?, you know what's happen to ya"
2: "Hey don't raise that glass. Understand?"
1: "Hey... you know what I could do to you if I wanted t.... Hey.. you don't make me 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 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 me look like a fool!"
2: "Oh easy man all you have to do is look in your own MIRROR..."
1: "Aye man!"
3: "Watch your language."
1: "Aye man, Didn't you hear me singin' a 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 know what? go to some other bar."
2: "Well alright."
(Background "LOVE!")
(FADES OUT)