todd snider
talking seattle grunge rock blues
[Chorus] 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 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 Mudhoney  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 Wowee Pretty scary How pensive How totally alternative  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 circumstances 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 didn't play It knocked him out He said he loved our work He said he loved our work but he wasn't sure if he could sell a record With nothing on it I said tell 'em we're from Seattle He advanced us two and a half million dollars  [Chorus]  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'd 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 Now that's alternative to alternative I feel stupid And contagious  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 Shave off your goatees Pack the van We're goin' back to Athens