Todd Snider - Talking Seattle Grunge Rock Blues lyrics

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 pa**ed So one day we finally took the plunge Moved out to seattle to play some grunge Washington State that is Space needle Eddie Vedder ……………………. 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 ………………………………. 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' d** 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 sh**. 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 ……………………… [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 d** 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.