Roger Waters - Sunset Strip [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

The canyon - daytime
Billy plays with Great Uncle David's Great Dane

[Paraquat Kelly] Bull heads, three red snapper, one pink snapper and your Pacific coastal trench hosemonster fish
[Cynthia Fox] Oh! At Sky David's juke joint of joy reports, forty under the console giggle stick ling cod, 23 purple perches, four sledgehammerhead sharks, and what a surprise, 84 crabs, and no red snappers!
[Paraquat Kelly] Hey, and that'll do for the triumphant return of the fish report with a beat!

[Jim] We think of it as mainstreet, but to the rest of the country it's Sunset Strip. You're listening to K.A.O.S. in Los Angeles!

I like staying with my Uncle Dave
And I like playing with his great dane
But I don't fit; I feel alien and strange
Kinda outa' range

I like riding in my Uncle's car
Down to the beach where the pretty girls all parade
And movie stars and paparazzi play
The Charles Atlas kicking sand in the face game

And I sit in the canyon with my back to the sea
There's a blood red dragon on a field of green
Calling me back, back to the Black Hills again

Billy come home

Billy is searching for his native land
Flicking through the stations with the dial in his head
Picking up
And a male voice choir on the short wave band
Billy taps out Jim's number on the phone
Sits shaking as he waits for Jim's answering tone
Come on my friend, speak to me please
The land of my fathers is calling to me

And I sit in the canyon with my back to the sea
There's a blood red dragon on a field of green
Calling me back, back to the Black Hills again

Billy come home
Come on home

He sits in the canyon with his back to the sea
Sees a blood red dragon on a field of green
He hears a male voice choir singing
Billy come home

Billy, Billy come home
Come on home

[Californian Weirdo] I don't like fish

[Jim:] You are listening to KAOS here in Los Angeles
[Californian Weirdo] I don't like fish
[Jim:] Yes, we've established that, uh, do you have a request?
[Multiple voices] Shell fish, Guppy, Salmon, Shrimp and crab and lobster, Flounder
[Man] I hate fish, but I think most of all I hate fresh fish, like trout. I hate fresh trout. My least-hated, favorite fish would be sole. That way you don't have to see the eyes. Sole has no eyes
[Jim] Oh no! (laughs) Thank you!
[Woman] I'd like to be home with my monkey and my dog
I'd like to be home with my monkey and my dog
I'd like to be home with my monkey and my dog
I'd like to be home with my monkey and my dog
I'd like to be home with my monkey-
[Jim] I don't care, shut up! Play the record!