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Sunless Saturday

Published on these records

The Reality of My Surroundings

(1991)

Sunless Saturday

(1991)

Fishbone 101 - Nuttasaurusmeg Fossil Fuelin' The Fonkay

(1996)

Party at Ground Zero

(2001)

Essential Fishbone

(2003)

The Very Best of Fishbone

(2010)

(1991)

(1999)

Live in Amsterdam

(2005)

Live in Bordeaux

(2009)

Official video

Performance Statistics

Performed	First played	Last played
548 times	26 Mar 1991 @ Lost Horizon - Syracuse (NY-US)	27 Sep 2025 @ Westgate - Las Vegas (NV-US)

Date Sort descending	Venue
Mar 26th 1991	Lost Horizon - Syracuse (NY)
Jun 15th 1991	Academy - New York (NY)
Jun 22nd 1991	Trocadero - Philadelphia (PA)
Jul 7th 1991	Shoreline Amphitheater - Mountain View (CA)
Jul 12th 1991	Memorial Hall - Kansas City (KS)
Jul 17th 1991	Sinbad's - Buffalo (NY)
Aug 2nd 1991	Cameo Theatre - Miami Beach (FL)
Oct 8th 1991	Ancienne Belgique - Brussels (BE)
Oct 12th 1991	Espace Julien - Marseille (FR)
Oct 21st 1991	Astoria - Westminster (GB)

Found on these live recordings

221 live recording(s)

	Date	Venue	Source
	Feb 26th 1998	Ten Mile Room - Breckenridge (CO)	Audience
	Mar 5th 1998	Crystal Ballroom - Portland (OR)	Soundboard
	Mar 28th 1998	Ripleys Alive - Cincinnati (OH)	Audience
	May 8th 1998	The Hurricane - Kansas City (MO)	Audience
	Oct 9th 1998	A.1.A. - Lexington (KY)	Audience
	Oct 10th 1998	Majestic Theater - Detroit (MI)	Audience
	Oct 31st 1998	Alley Cat Scramble - Toronto (ON)	Audience
	Feb 19th 1999	Key Club - W Hollywood (CA)	Soundboard
	May 14th 1999	Boulder Theater - Boulder (CO)	Soundboard
	Aug 28th 1999	George Washington University - Washington (DC)	Audience

Found in these videos

Tagged in 61 videos

Found in 21 full show videos

Lyrics

I see the pestilence outside my window
I see the dung heaps piled at least a mile high
I see the shards of shattered dreams in the street
I face the morning with my customary sigh

I hear the sounds of children laughing aloud
A stumbling wino has attracted quite a crowd
My breakfast finished now I brave the outside
But clouds have hidden all the warmth inside

Chase these clouds away
I hate this sunless Saturday

Freedom come
For us now
Light our sky
Burn away these clouds

Perhaps the charcoal grey and brown around me
Is just the mirror image of tainted soul
I think the sun will never visit my sky
Until the truth is seen by each and every eye

I see the helpless and I see the insane
I see a pauper singing in the pouring rain
I see the means of help elude us again
I think the sun will never visit me again