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.. 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' 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' about this poem I 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 it's your record, you know what I 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 then shrink sink 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 streaks my span of time, and is seen by those who "lift" eyes, in of light, to them, the LONG! DARK! NIGHT!
"Hey you know alright, hehe"
"Well thanks man, it's just a I learned a long time ago"
"It's alright, but tell me somethin'. What happened?"
"Well you see... 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 told me a sort of a strange uh... you know, flying saucer story."
"Flying huh?"
"Yeah, ya see, one night he was along mindin' his own, and looked off to his right and he saw this strange light too."
"A right?"
"Right."
"So anyway, he off to investigate this light off to his right, right?"
"Right."
"Got about half way across this field and... 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 of this 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 real fast, and all that.."
"Hey wait! a minute wai.. way..."
"Wait a minute for what man? What do think you're doin'? You 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 hear the one about 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 crazy man... {Background screaming; "I love you"} Let me ask you somethin', what you have done man?"
"Well to begin with I have told this story, you understand?"
"That's for you to say but it happened to me, you know 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 clean up this language, clean it up, come on. Either you clean up this language or get out of place."
1: "Hey man.. man me an ASSHOLE!"
3: BARTENDER: "Alright that's enough of those words! Now either ya talk or ya get outta here!"
2: "I'm still sayin' ah... not me, it's just that you ARE and ASSHOLE, understand?" (background screaming: "I want. I need, I love you!")
1: "Hey you know somethin?, you know 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 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 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 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, you're making me like a fool!"
2: "Oh that's easy man all you have to do is in your own MIRROR..."
1: "Aye man!"
3: "Watch your language."
1: "Aye man, Didn't you hear me a while ago?"
3: BARTENDER: "Hey let me ask you somethin', are you a group 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 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)