Talkin' Seattle Grunge Rock Blues
By Todd Snider
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Hey, hey, my, my
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Rock n' roll will never die
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Just hang your hair down in your eyes
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You'll make a million dollars
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Well, I was in this band goin' nowhere fast
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We sent out demos but everybody passed
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So one day we finally took the plunge
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Moved out to Seattle to play some grunge
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Washington state that is...
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Space needle, Eddie Vedder
Mudhoney
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Now to fit in fast we wear flannel shirts
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We turn our amps up until it hurts
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We've got bad attitudes and what's more
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When we play we stare straight down at the floor
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Woweee! Pretty scary
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How pensive
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How totally alternative
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Now to fit in on the Seattle scene
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You've got to do something they ain't never seen
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So thinkin' up a gimmick one day
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We decided to be the only band that wouldn't play a note
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Under any circumstances
Silence...
Music's original alternative
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Root's grunge
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Well we spread the word through the underground
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That we were the hottest new thing in town
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The record guy came out to see us one day
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And just like always we didn't play
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It knocked him out
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He said he loved our work
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He said he loved our work, but he wasn't sure if he could
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Sell a record with nothing on it
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I said tell 'em we're from Seattle
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He advanced us two and half million dollars
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Hey, hey, my, my
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Rock n' roll will never die
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Hang your hair down in your eyes
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You'll make a million dollars
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Well they made us do a video but that wasn't tough
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'Cause we just filmed ourselves smashing stuff
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It's kind of weird 'cause there was no music
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But MTV said they'd love to use it
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The kids went wild, the kids went nuts
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Rolling Stone gave us a five star review
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Said we played with guts
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We're scoring chicks, taking drugs
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Then we got asked to play MTV Unplugged
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You should have seen it
We went right out there and refused to do acoustical versions of
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the electrical songs that we had refused to record in the first place
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Then we smashed our shit
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Well we blew 'em away at the Grammys show
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By refusing to play and refusing to go
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And then just when we thought fame would last forever
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Along come this band that wasn't even together
Now that's alternative
Now that's alternative to alternative
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I feel stupid...and contagious
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Well our band got dropped and that ain't funny
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'Cause we're all hooked on drugs but we're outta money
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So the other day I called up the band
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I said boys I've taken all I can
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Shave off your goatees, pack the van
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We're going back to Athens
