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"