Sunset Strip - Roger Waters • Vinyl Single "7 U.K

Vinyl Single 7" - EMI Records - EM 20.

1987 - U.K.

 

Back cover

Sunset Strip

Label side 1

Money

Label side 2

Roger Waters

Lyric

Sunset Strip.

(R. Waters)

(The Canyon - daytime. Billy plays with Great Uncle David's

Great Dane.)

Paraquat Kelly: Bull heads, three red snapper, one pink

snapper and your Pacific coastal trench

housemonster fish.

Cynthia Fox: Ohhh! At Sky David's juke joint of joy

reports, forty under the console giggle stick ling

cod, twenty-three purple perches four sledge-

hammerhead sharks, and what a surprise,

eightyfour crabs, and no red snapper.

Paraquat Kelly: Hey and that'll do for the triumphant

return of the fish report with a beat.

Jim: We think of it as mainstreet, but to the rest of

the country it's Sunset Strip. You're listening to

KAOS in Los Angeles.

I like staying with my Uncle Dave

and I like playing with his great dane

but I don't fit

I feel alien and strange. Kinda outa range

I like riding in my Uncle's car

Down to the beach where the pretty girls all parade

And movie stars and paparazzi play

The Charles Atlas kicking sand in the face game

And I sit in the canyon with my back to the sea

There's a blood red dragon on a field of green

Calling me back

Back to the Black Hills again

Ooh, ooh, Billy come home

Billy is searching for his native land

Flicking through the stations with the dial in his head

Picking up - - - - - - - - and

a male voice choir on the short wave band

Billy taps out Jim's number on the phone

Sits shaking as he waits for Jim's answering tone

Come on my friend, speak to me please

The land of my fathers is calling to me

And I sit in the canyon with my back to the sea

There's a blood red dragon on a field of green

Calling me back, back to the Black Hills again

Ooh, ooh, Billy come home

Come on home

He sits in the canyon with his back to the sea

Sees a blood red dragon on a field of green

He hears a male voice choir singing Billy come home

Billy, Billy, come home

Come on home

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