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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
Jul 25th 1992	Brixton Academy - London (GB)
Sep 18th 1992	Warfield Theater - San Francisco (CA)
Jun 10th 1993	City Square - Milan (IT)
Jun 19th 1993	The Gorge - George (WA)
Jul 1st 1993	Riverport Amphitheatre - St Louis (MO)
Jul 28th 1993	Central Florida Fairgrounds - Orlando (FL)
Aug 27th 1993	Reading Festival - Reading (GB)
Sep 5th 1993	Aarhus Halle - Aarhus (DK)
Sep 25th 1993	Salle des Congrès - La Rochelle (FR)
Sep 28th 1993	Escall - Nantes (FR)

Found on these live recordings

221 live recording(s)

	Date	Venue	Source
	Jun 29th 2018	Levitt Pavillion - Los Angeles (CA)	Audience
	Jul 28th 2018	Fuji Rock Festival - Niigata (JP)	Professional capture
	Aug 18th 2018	Paddy's Beach Club - Westerly (RI)	Aud+Sbd Matrix
	Aug 19th 2018	The Chance - Poughkeepsie (NY)	Audience
	Aug 24th 2018	Brooklyn Bowl - Brooklyn (NY)	Soundboard
	Aug 26th 2018	Colony - Woodstock (NY)	Soundboard
	Dec 21st 2018	Great American Music Hall - San Francisco (CA)	Audience
	Jun 6th 2019	Franklin Music Hall - Philadelphia (PA)	Audience
	Jun 9th 2019	Upstate Concert Hall - Clifton Park (NY)	Audience
	Jul 27th 2019	White Oak Ampitheatre - Greensboro (NC)	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