Harry Nilsson - Flying Saucer Song Lyrics (ORIGINAL) from the album. Transcribed by Max R.
(horns, drums, funky guitar riffs and a waves of strumming run throughout the song.)
1: "Hey! happening?" 1) Oblio?
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 know what i... "
"Oh so happenin'?"
"Ah nothin' much except um... I had a 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 about this poem 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 Late night! in of light! I watched a ball of streak across the midnight sky! I watched it glow grow then shrink then sink silhouette of morning, as I it die..
You know what I said to I said 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 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 I learned a long time ago"
"It's still alright, but tell me somethin'. happened?"
"Well you see... That wasn't the funny thing that 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 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 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 what 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 myself see, uh (chuckles) listen I hope wife and your 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 You turning in to crusades or something? 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 the one about the guy with a wooden eye?"
"Hey now don't do that to me man I mean... well let me put it way."
"Listen, shit. You know somethin'? CRAZY. You know 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 wouldn't have told story, you understand?"
"That's easy for you to say but it happened to me, you know I mean?"
"Hey listen man don't be some asshole, you 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, 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 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 gonna 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 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 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, you're 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 hear me singin' a ago?"
3: "Hey let me ask you guys 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 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)