Harry - Flying Saucer Song Lyrics (ORIGINAL) from the Sandman album. Transcribed by Max R.
(horns, drums, funky guitar riffs and a waves of violin/cello 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 now and then, but you know what 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 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 a ball of fi ..You mind 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 last night! in of light! I watched a ball of fire streak across the sky! I watched it glow grow shrink 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 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 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 strange light too."
"A right?"
"Right."
"So anyway, he started off to investigate this 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 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 this guy in the story, the 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! a minute wai.. way..."
"Wait a minute for what man? What do think you're doin'? You turning in to crusades or That's the dumbest story I ever heard in my Life."
"Whachu mean? 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 somethin'? You're CRAZY. You that?"
"Wha... hey.. don't you me crazy man... {Background screaming; "I love you"} Let me ask you somethin', what would you have done man?"
"Well to begin with I wouldn't told this story, you understand?"
"That's for you to say but it happened to me, you know what I mean?"
"Hey listen man be some asshole, you trying' to pull my..."
"Hey you ME and ASSHOLE?"
"No I'm just you're an ASSHOLE, you're sayi')"
3: BARTENDER: "Hey you guy.. Alright alright alright, let's clean up this language, it up, come on. Either you clean up this language or get out of this place."
1: "Hey man.. man me an ASSHOLE!"
3: "Alright that's enough of those words! Now either ya talk clean 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 know somethin?, you know what's happen to ya"
2: "Hey don't raise that glass. Understand?"
1: "Hey... you know I could do to you if I wanted 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 '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 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 I gotta go now."
"GOD DAMNIT MAN! What are you doin' to me man, making 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 me singin' a while 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 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)