Talking Seattle Grunge Rock Blues

[Chorus]

Hey-hey, my-my

Rock and Roll will never die

Hang your hair down in your eyes

Make a million dollars

[Verse 1]

Well I was in this band goin' nowhere fast

We sent out our demo but everybody passed

So one day we finally took the plunge

We went out to Seattle and we started playin' grunge

Washington State, that is

Space Needle

Eddie Vedder

Ichiro Suzuki

[Verse 2]

Now to fit in fast we got 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, oooh

I ain't seen nothin' like that on television in, like, an hour

[Verse 3]

Now to fit in on the Seattle scene

You had to show people somethin' that they'd never seen

So thinkin' up a gimmick one day

We decided to be the only band that wouldn't play a note

Under any circumstance

We called it Silence

Music's original alternative

Roots grunge

[Verse 4]

Well we spread the word through the underground

That we were the hottest new young band 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 could sell a record that didn't have any music on it

I said "Man you've been doing that all year"

[Chorus]

Hey-hey, my-my

Rock and Roll will never die

Hang your hair down in your eyes

Make a million dollars

[Verse 5]

Well they made us do a video but that wasn't tough

We just filmed ourselves smashin' stuff

It was kinda weird 'cause there was no music

But MTV said that they would love to use it

The kids went wild, the kids went nuts

Rolling Stone gave us five stars, said we played with guts

We were meetin' chicks, takin' drugs

They asked us to do MTV Unplugged

You should've seen us

We went right out there and refused to do acoustical versions of the electrical songs we 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 it looked like fame would last forever

Along come this band that wasn't even together

Now that's alternative

That's the alternative to alternative

They're called Guns n' Roses

[Chorus]

(Sing if you know, alright)

Hey-hey, my-my

Rock and Roll will never die

Hang your hair down in your eyes

Make a million dollars

[Verse 7]

Well our band got fired and that's not funny

'Cause now we're hooked on grass but we're out of money

So the other day I called up the band

I said, "Boys I've taken all I can

"I say we shave off these goatees, pack up the van

"Move up to Boulder, follow the Yonder Mountain String Band"