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! happening?" 1) Oblio?
2: "Hey.. what's how's your old lady?" 2) Arrow?
"Oh she's fine, you know... a little problem 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 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 night in search of light. I watched a 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 I mean? Carry on, do whatever you want..."
"Well Late night! in of light! I watched a ball of fire streak across the sky! I watched it then grow then shrink sink into silhouette of morning, as I it die..
You know I said to myself I said Hey. I got a lot in common with light"
2: "That's right"
1: "Ya I'm alive! a fire, my life, it streaks 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 thanks man, just a poem I learned a long time ago"
"It's alright, but tell 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 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 his own, and looked off to his right 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 there he was in the middle of a field in the middle of the 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 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 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 you're doin'? You turning in to crusades or something? That's the dumbest story I ever heard in my Life."
"Whachu Listen I'm tellin' 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 to me man I mean... well let me put it this way."
"Listen, shit. You know You're CRAZY. You know 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 have this 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 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, on. Either you clean up this language or get out of this place."
1: "Hey man.. man me an ASSHOLE!"
3: BARTENDER: "Alright enough of those words! Now either ya talk clean or ya get outta here!"
2: "I'm sayin' ah... it's 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 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 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 right I go now."
"GOD DAMNIT MAN! What are you to me man, you're 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: "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: Bartender: "Well I heard you ya 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 some bar."
2: "Well alright."
(Background "LOVE!")
(FADES OUT)