Harry Nilsson - Flying Song 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! 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 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 looked off to my right, an' I, saw this light."
"A "
"That's Right.... So anyway what happened, it got me thinkin' about this I read 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 puttin' you on it's 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 streak 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 myself I Hey. I got a lot in with that light"
2: "That's right"
1: "Ya I'm alive! a fire, my life, it across my span of time, and is seen by 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 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 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 and he saw this strange light too."
"A right?"
"Right."
"So anyway, he started off to this light 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 so what happened with 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 whatchamacallits 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 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 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 know somethin'? You're CRAZY. You 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 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, let's clean 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: "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 that you ARE and ASSHOLE, understand?" (background screaming: "I want. I need, I love you!")
1: "Hey you know somethin?, you what's gonna happen to ya"
2: "Hey listen don't raise 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 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 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, making me look 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 maybe ya's a group, you know?"
1: "Hey.. Hey why don't you just get paid? You serve the drinks, you know, you them glasses leave us alone. Hey you know what? Let's go to some other bar."
2: "Well alright."
(Background "LOVE!")
(FADES OUT)