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"Talking Seattle Grunge Rock Blues" is a track by Todd Snider, from the album Near Truths And Hotel Rooms, released 13th May 2003. Full lyrics are available below.
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[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"
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