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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
541 times	26 Mar 1991 @ Lost Horizon - Syracuse (NY-US)	05 Jul 2025 @ Pappy & Harriet's - Pioneertown (CA-US)

Date Sort descending	Venue
Sep 17th 2015	Horseshoe Tavern - Toronto (ON)
Oct 16th 2015	Belly Up - Solana Beach (CA)
Oct 29th 2015	Jack's Bar - San Antonio (TX)
Nov 24th 2015	House of Independents - Asbury Park (NJ)
Dec 18th 2015	Roxy Theatre - Hollywood (CA)
Feb 6th 2016	Velvet Jones - Santa Barbara (CA)
Feb 19th 2016	Saint Rocke - Hermosa Beach (CA)
May 26th 2016	Music Box - Cleveland (OH)
May 31st 2016	Skyway Theater - Minneapolis (MN)
Jun 16th 2016	Grey Eagle - Asheville (NC)

Found on these live recordings

218 live recording(s)

	Date	Venue	Source
	Jul 20th 2001	Berbatis Pan - Portland (OR)	Audience
	Oct 25th 2001	Harper's Ferry - Allston (MA)	Audience
	Jan 24th 2002	Loading Dock - Traverse City (MI)	Audience
	Apr 25th 2002	Lee's Palace - Toronto (ON)	Audience
	Apr 26th 2002	Boo Radley's - Guelph (ON)	Audience
	Apr 27th 2002	Call the Office - London (ON)	Audience
	Apr 29th 2002	Water Street Bar - Rochester (NY)	Audience
	Oct 8th 2002	Front 54 - Thorold (ON)	Audience
	Oct 10th 2002	Lee's Palace - Toronto (ON)	Audience
	Oct 11th 2002	Call the Office - London (ON)	Audience

Found in these videos

Tagged in 59 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