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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
Nov 3rd 1991	First Avenue - Minneapolis (MN)
Nov 6th 1991	Central Park Ballroom - Milwaukee (WI)
Nov 10th 1991	State Theatre - Kalamazoo (MI)
Nov 13th 1991	Agora - Cleveland (OH)
Nov 16th 1991	MacPhie Pub - Medford (MA)
Nov 18th 1991	Orpheum Theater - Boston (MA)
Nov 27th 1991	GSU Sports Arena - Atlanta (GA)
Nov 29th 1991	Cameo Theatre - Miami Beach (FL)
Dec 1st 1991	UCSF - Tampa (FL)
Jan 15th 1992	Catalyst - Santa Cruz (CA)

Found on these live recordings

221 live recording(s)

	Date	Venue	Source
	Jun 14th 2001	Showplace Theatre - Buffalo (NY)	Audience
	Jul 18th 2001	Commodore Ballroom - Vancouver (BC)	Audience
	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

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