Talking Seattle Grunge Rock Blues

Snider

Hey, hey, my, my

Rock and roll will never die

Hang your hair down in your eye

You'll make a million dollars.

Well, I was in this band goin' nowhere fast

We sent out our 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

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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, oooh

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Now to fit in on the Seattle scene

You've 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 circumstance

We called it silence

Music's original alternative

Root's 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 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 with nothing on it

I said …………………………….

Hey, hey, my, my

Rock and roll will never die

Hang your hair down in your eye

You'll make a million dollars.

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 they would 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're scorin' chicks, takin' drugs

Then we got asked to play MTV unplugged, you should have seen it.

We went right out there and refused to do acoustical versions of the

Electrical songs we had refused to record in the first place

Then we smashed our ****.

Well, we blew 'em away at the Grammy's 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

I say alternative to alternative

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[Hey, hey, my, my]

[Rock and roll will never die]

[Hang your hair down in your eye]

[You'll make a million dollars]

Well, our band got dropped and that ain't funny

'Cause we're all hooked on drugs but we're outta money

So the other day I called up the band

I said boys I've taken all I can

I said shave off your goatees

Pack the van

We're goin' back to Athens.