Todd Snider - Talking Seattle Grunge Rock Blues [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

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 shit

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