Harry Nilsson - Flying Saucer Song Lyrics (ORIGINAL) from the Sandman album. 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.. shaking? how's your old lady?" 2) Arrow?
"Oh she's fine, you know... a little hemorrhoidal problem now and then, but you what i... [mumbles] "
"Oh so happenin'?"
"Ah nothin' much 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 I read once."
"A huh?"
"Yeah, a poem. like... Late last in search of light. I a ball of fi ..You don't 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 Carry on, do whatever you want..."
"Well last night! in of light! I watched a of fire streak across the midnight sky! I watched it glow grow then shrink then sink into 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 across my of time, and is by those who "lift" their eyes, in of light, to them, the LONG! DARK! NIGHT!
"Hey you that's 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 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.... 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 light too."
"A right?"
"Right."
"So anyway, he started off to investigate 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 middle of the night investigating 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 this guy in the story, the poem and 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 get better real fast, and all that.."
"Hey wait! a minute 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 I ever heard in my Life."
"Whachu mean? Listen I'm 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 to me man I mean... well let me put it this way."
"Listen, shit. You know somethin'? You're CRAZY. You that?"
"Wha... hey.. don't you call me crazy man... {Background screaming; "I love you"} Let me ask you somethin', what would you 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 just sayin' you're an ASSHOLE, sayi')"
3: BARTENDER: "Hey you guy.. Alright alright alright, let's 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 either ya clean or ya get outta here!"
2: "I'm sayin' ah... it's not me, it's just that you ARE and ASSHOLE, understand?" (background screaming: "I want. I need, I love you!")
1: "Hey you somethin?, you know what's gonna happen to ya"
2: "Hey listen don't 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 I gotta go now."
"GOD DAMNIT MAN! are you doin' to me man, you're making me look like a fool!"
2: "Oh that's easy man all you have to do is look in own MIRROR..."
1: "Aye man!"
3: BARTENDER: "Watch language."
1: "Aye man, Didn't you hear me singin' a ago?"
3: BARTENDER: "Hey let me ask you somethin', are you a group or anything?"
1: "Group?"
3: Bartender: "Well I you ya singin' before, I I thought 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 other bar."
2: "Well alright."
(Background "LOVE!")
(FADES OUT)