Harry Nilsson - Flying Saucer Lyrics (ORIGINAL) from the Sandman album. Transcribed by Max R.
(horns, drums, funky guitar riffs and a of violin/cello strumming run throughout the song.)
1: "Hey! what's happening?" 1)
2: "Hey.. what's shaking? how's your old lady?" 2)
"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 walkin' along, you know, my own..."
"Yeah"
"I looked off to my right, an' I, saw 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... last night in search of light. I watched a of fi ..You don't mind if I do 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 last 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 what I said to myself 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 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 man, it's just a poem I learned a long time ago"
"It's still alright, but me somethin'. What happened?"
"Well you see... That wasn't the funny thing 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 saucer story."
"Flying huh?"
"Yeah, ya see, one night he was walking' along 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 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 middle of the night investigating this weird light off to the right, right?
"Right. So happened?"
"Well, to a long story 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 see, uh (chuckles) listen I hope your wife and your whatchamacallits get better real fast, and all that.."
"Hey wait! wait a wai.. way..."
"Wait a for what man? 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 mean? Listen I'm you the truth!"
"That's nice, you know, but uh.. you ever hear the one about the guy 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 man... {Background screaming; "I love you"} Let me ask you somethin', what would you have done man?"
"Well to begin with I wouldn't have this story, you understand?"
"That's easy for you to say but it happened to me, you what I mean?"
"Hey listen man don't be 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. you clean up this language or get out of this place."
1: "Hey man.. man me an ASSHOLE!"
3: BARTENDER: "Alright enough of those words! Now either ya talk clean or ya get outta here!"
2: "I'm still sayin' ah... it's not me, just that you ARE and ASSHOLE, understand?" (background screaming: "I want. I need, I love you!")
1: "Hey you know somethin?, you know what's gonna to ya"
2: "Hey listen don't that glass. Understand?"
1: "Hey... you know what I could do to you if I t.... Hey.. you don't make me angry or nuthin'"
2: "yeah"
1:"I'm just tryin' to talk to you, you asked me, said 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! are you doin' to me man, you're making me look like a fool!"
2: "Oh that's 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: BARTENDER: "Hey let me ask you guys somethin', are you a or anything?"
1: "Group?"
3: "Well I heard you ya singin' before, I I thought maybe ya's a group, you know?"
1: "Hey.. Hey why 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 other bar."
2: "Well alright."
(Background "LOVE!")
(FADES OUT)