SUNSET STRIP

 

Lyrics - Roger Waters

Music - Roger Waters

 

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: Ohh! At Sky David's juke joint of joy reports
forty under the console giggle stick ling cod, twenty-three
purple perches four sledgehammerhead sharks, and what a
surprise, eightyfour 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 KAOS 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 girl's 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
Ooh, ooh, Billy come home

Billy is searching for his native land
Flicking through the stations with the dial in his hand
Picking up ----------------- and
A male voice choir on the short wave radio

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
Ooh, ooh, Billy come home

Come on home
He sits in a 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, marine fish
JIM: You are listening to KAOS here in Los Angeles
CALIFORNIAN WEIRDO: I don't like fish
JIM: Yes, we've established that. Ah! Do you have a request?
CALIFORNIAN WEIRDO: Shell fish, guppy, salmon, shrimp and
crab and lobster, flounder, 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 have no eyes
JIM: Oh no!
I'd like to be home with my monkey and my dog
JIM: Thankyou
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: They don't care, shut up, play the record.

 

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