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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
Sep 6th 2008	Mateel Community Center - Redway (CA)
Nov 15th 2008	Hawthorne Theather - Portland (OR)
Nov 16th 2008	El Corazon - Seattle (WA)
Nov 25th 2008	Peabody's Down Under - Cleveland (OH)
Nov 29th 2008	Knitting Factory - New York (NY)
Dec 1st 2008	The Jewish Mother - Virginia Beach (VA)
Dec 5th 2008	Handle Bar - Greenville (SC)
Dec 8th 2008	Meridian - Houston (TX)
Dec 10th 2008	The Prophet Bar - Dallas (TX)
Jan 16th 2009	Moe's Alley - Santa Cruz (CA)

Found on these live recordings

221 live recording(s)

	Date	Venue	Source
	Jun 19th 1993	Lollapalooza 1993 - George (WA)	Audience
	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

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