by Todd Snider {refrain} Hey, hey, my, my Rock and roll will never die Hang your hair down in your eye You'll make a million dollars / G C D7 G / : Well we were in this band going 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 Now to fit in fast we wear flannel shirts We turn our amps up until it hurts We've got bad attitudes and what's more When we play we stare straight down at the floor Oooooooeeeeeeeeoooooooo Ain't seen nothing like that on television in like... an hour Now to fit in on the Seattle scene You've gotta do something they ain't never seen So thinking up a gimmick one day We decided to be the only band that wouldn't play a note Under any circumstances We called it Silence, music's original alternative... roots grunge Well we spread the word through the underground That we were the hottest new thing in town The record guy came out to see us one day And just like always we didn't play It knocked him out He said he loved our work He said he loved our work but he wasn't sure if he could sell a record with no music on it I said shit, you've been doing that all year {refrain} Well they made us do a video but that wasn't tough Since we just filmed ourselves smashing stuff It was kinda weird because there was no music But MTV said 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're scoring chicks, taking drugs, they asked us to play MTV Unplugged, you should have seen it We went right out there and refused to do acoustic versions of the electric songs we'd refused to record in the first place Then we smashed our shit Well we blew them away at the Grammy show By refusing to play and refusing to go And then just when we thought fame would last forever Along come this band that wasn't even together Now that's alternative That's alternative to alternative They're called Guns 'N' Roses Sing if you know it! {refrain} Well our band got dropped and that ain't funny Because we're hooked on grass but we're outta money So the other day I called up the band I said "Boys, I've taken all I can "Shave off your goatees, pack the van "We're going up to Boulder to follow the Yonder Mountain String Band" {refrain} |
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