Talkin' Seattle Blues

[Chorus] Hey-hey, my-my Rock and Roll will never die Just hang your hair down in your eyes You'll make a million dollars [Verse 1] Well I was in this band goin' nowhere fast We sent out demos but everybody passed So one day we finally took the plunge Moved out to Seattle to play some grunge Washington State, that is Space Needle Eddie Vedder Mudhoney [Verse 2] Now to fit in fast we wear flannel shirts And we turn our amps up until it hurts We got bad attitudes, and what's more When we play we stare straight down at the floor Wow-eee Pretty scary Pretty pensive Totally alternative [Verse 3] Now to fit in on the Seattle scene You gotta do somethin' they ain't never seen So thinkin' up a gimmick one day We decided to be the only band that wouldn't play a note Under any circumstances Silence Music's original alternative Roots grunge [Verse 4] Well we spread the word through the underground That we were the hottest new thing in town The record guy come out to see us one day And just like always we refused to play It knocked him out He said he loved our work He said he loved our work but he wasn't sure he if could sell a record with nothin' on it I said "Tell 'em we're from Seattle" He advanced us two-and-a-half million dollars [Chorus] Hey-hey, my-my Rock and Roll will never die Hang your hair down in your eyes You'll make a million dollars [Verse 5] Well they made us do a video but that wasn't tough 'Cause we just filmed ourselves smashin' stuff It was kinda weird 'cause there was no music But MTV said that they'd love to use it The kids went wild, the kids went nuts Rolling Stone gave us a five star review, said we played with guts We were scorin' chicks, takin' drugs Then we got asked to play MTV Unplugged You should've seen it We went right out there and refused to do acoustical versions of the electrical songs we that we had refused to record in the first place Then we smashed our shit [Verse 6] Well we blew 'em away at the Grammy's show By refusing to play and refusing to go Then just when we thought fame would last forever Along come this band that wasn't even together Now that's alternative Now that's alternative to alternative I feel stupid And contagious [Verse 7] Well our band got dropped and that's not funny 'Cause we're all hooked on drugs but we're out of money So the other day I called up the band I said, "Boys I've taken all I can "Shave off your goatees "Pack up the van "We're goin' back to Athens"