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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
Dec 5th 1998	The Chance - Poughkeepsie (NY)
Dec 6th 1998	Trocadero - Philadelphia (PA)
Feb 19th 1999	Key Club - W Hollywood (CA)
Apr 17th 1999	The Galaxy - Westhampton (NY)
May 14th 1999	Boulder Theater - Boulder (CO)
Aug 26th 1999	Ziggy's - Winston Salem (NC)
Aug 28th 1999	George Washington University - Washington (DC)
Sep 4th 1999	The Usual - San Jose (CA)
Sep 8th 1999	Bataclan - Paris (FR)
Sep 9th 1999	Melkweg - Amsterdam (NL)

Found on these live recordings

221 live recording(s)

	Date	Venue	Source
	Oct 5th 1993	Transbordeur - Lyon (FR)	Audience
	Oct 6th 1993	Summum - Grenoble (FR)	Audience
	Oct 7th 1993	Montjoye - Besançon (FR)	Audience
	Oct 8th 1993	Espace Seichamps - Nancy (FR)	Audience
	Oct 9th 1993	Festival du Devenir - Saint Quentin (FR)	Audience
	Jan 28th 1994	Iguana's - Tijuana (CA)	Audience
	Feb 25th 1994	Irving Plaza - New York (NY)	Audience
	Mar 2nd 1994	Avalon Ballroom - Boston (MA)	Audience
	Apr 9th 1994	Warfield Theater - San Francisco (CA)	Audience
	Apr 12th 1994	Catalyst - Santa Cruz (CA)	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