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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
Aug 26th 2018	Colony - Woodstock (NY)
Nov 6th 2018	Brooklyn Bowl - Brooklyn (NY)
Dec 19th 2018	The Music Box - San Diego (CA)
Dec 21st 2018	Great American Music Hall - San Francisco (CA)
Dec 22nd 2018	Discovery Ventura - Ventura (CA)
Mar 4th 2019	311 Caribbean Cruise VI - Tampa (FL)
May 27th 2019	Liquid Room - Tokyo (JP)
May 31st 2019	Aragon Ballroom - Chicago (IL)
Jun 4th 2019	Summer Stage NYC - New York (NY)
Jun 4th 2019	Sony Hall - New York (NY)

Found on these live recordings

221 live recording(s)

	Date	Venue	Source
	Sep 8th 1999	Bataclan - Paris (FR)	Audience
	Sep 9th 1999	Melkweg - Amsterdam (NL)	Audience
	Sep 12th 1999	Live Music Hall - Koln (DE)	Audience
	Oct 14th 1999	Brick Works - Chico (CA)	Audience
	Feb 28th 2000	Nuttstalk 2000 - Lake Tahoe (CA)	Soundboard
	Apr 8th 2000	Fenix Underground - Seattle (WA)	Soundboard
	May 2nd 2000	Stella Blue - Asheville (NC)	Soundboard
	May 2nd 2000	Stella Blue - Asheville (NC)	Audience
	May 2nd 2000	Stella Blue - Asheville (NC)	Audience
	Jun 23rd 2000	Paradiso - Amsterdam (NL)	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