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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
534 times	26 Mar 1991 @ Lost Horizon - Syracuse (NY-US)	18 Jun 2025 @ Empire Underground - Albany (NY-US)

Date Sort descending	Venue
Jul 19th 2001	Graceland - Seattle (WA)
Jul 20th 2001	Berbatis Pan - Portland (OR)
Jul 21st 2001	SF Dawg Pound - San Francisco (CA)
Oct 25th 2001	Harper's Ferry - Allston (MA)
Oct 26th 2001	The Haunt - Ithaca (NY)
Jan 24th 2002	Loading Dock - Traverse City (MI)
Feb 6th 2002	La Salle's - Chico (CA)
Feb 15th 2002	Wild Buffalo - Bellingham (WA)
Feb 22nd 2002	Tulagi - Boulder (CO)
Feb 23rd 2002	Wild Creek - Winter Park (CO)

Found on these live recordings

217 live recording(s)

	Date	Venue	Source
	Jul 1st 1993	Lollapalooza 1993 - St Louis (MO)	Soundboard
	Aug 27th 1993	Reading Festival - Reading (GB)	Audience
	Sep 5th 1993	Aarhus Halle - Aarhus (DK)	Audience
	Sep 25th 1993	Salle des Congrès - La Rochelle (FR)	Audience
	Sep 28th 1993	Escall - Nantes (FR)	Audience
	Sep 29th 1993	Salle de la Cité - Rennes (FR)	Audience
	Sep 30th 1993	Zenith - Caen (FR)	Audience
	Oct 1st 1993	Confort Moderne - Poitiers (FR)	Audience
	Oct 3rd 1993	Arapaho - Paris (FR)	Audience
	Oct 5th 1993	Transbordeur - Lyon (FR)	Audience

Found in these videos

Tagged in 59 videos

Found in 20 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