Harry Nilsson - Flying Saucer Song Lyrics (ORIGINAL) the Sandman album. Transcribed by Max R.
(horns, drums, funky guitar and a waves of violin/cello strumming run throughout the song.)
1: "Hey! what's happening?" 1)
2: "Hey.. what's shaking? how's your old lady?" 2)
"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 happened, it got me thinkin' about this poem I read once."
"A huh?"
"Yeah, a poem. like... Late last night in 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 last night! in of light! I watched a ball of fire streak the midnight sky! I watched it glow then then shrink then into 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 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.. 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 right and he saw this strange too."
"A right?"
"Right."
"So anyway, he started off to investigate light off to his right, right?"
"Right."
"Got 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 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 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. I got to split now myself see, uh (chuckles) listen I hope your 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 doin'? You turning in to crusades or something? That's the dumbest story I heard in my Life."
"Whachu Listen I'm tellin' you the truth!"
"That's nice, you know, but uh.. you ever hear the one about the guy with a eye?"
"Hey now don't do that to me man I mean... well let me put it way."
"Listen, shit. You know You're CRAZY. You know 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 told 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 some asshole, you trying' to 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, clean it up, come on. Either you clean up 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 what's gonna to ya"
2: "Hey listen raise that glass. Understand?"
1: "Hey... you know what I could do to you if I wanted t.... Hey.. you 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 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 right I go now."
"GOD DAMNIT MAN! are you doin' to me man, you're 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, 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 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 us alone. Hey you know what? Let's go to some other bar."
2: "Well alright."
(Background "LOVE!")
(FADES OUT)