Sunset Strip Lyrics

[Spoken Intro: Paraquat Kelly & Cynthia Fox, Jim]
*Billy plays with Great Uncle David's Great Dane*
”…bull heads, three red snapper, one pink snapper and your Pacific coastal trench hosemonster fish”
” Oh! At Sky Daniel's juke joint of joy reports, forty under the console giggle stick ling cod, 23 purple perches, four sledgehammer head sharks, and what a surprise, 84 crabs, and no red snappers!”
” Hey, and that'll do for the triumphant return of the fish report with a beat!”

[Jim:] We think of it as Main Street, but to the rest of the country it's Sunset Strip. You're listening to K.A.O.S in Los Angeles!

[Verse 1: Roger Waters]
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 out of 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

[Chorus: Waters]
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

[Post-Chorus: Background Vocals]
Ooh-ooh, Billy come home

[Verse 2: Waters]
Billy is searching for his native land
Flicking through the stations with the dial in his head
Picking up *Signal Voice*
And a male voice choir on the short wave band
Billy taps out Jim's number on the phone
He 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
[Chorus: Waters]
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

[Post-Chorus: Background Vocals & Waters]
Ooh-ooh, Billy come home
Come on home

[Chorus: Waters]
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

[Post-Chorus: Background Vocals & Waters, Only Waters]
Billy come home
Yeah, Billy come home
Come on home

[Instrumental Outro (with Spoken: Californian Weirdo)]
(I don't like fish)
(Green fish)
(I don't like fish)

[Spoken Outro: Jim & Californian Weirdo, Man, (Multiple Voices), Woman]
[Jim:] You are listening to K.A.O.S here in Los Angeles
[Californian Weirdo:] I don't like fish
[Jim:] Yes, we've established that, uh, do you have a request?
(“Shellfish, Guppy, Salmon, Shrimp and crab and lobster, Flounder”)
” I hate fish, but I think most of all I hate fresh fish, like trout. I hate fresh trout. My least-hated, favorite fish would be sole. That way you don't have to see the eyes. Sole has no eyes
[Jim:] Oh no! *Laughs*, thank you!
I'd like to be home with my monkey and my dog
I'd like to be home with my monkey and my dog
I'd like to be home with my monkey and my dog

I'd like to be home with my monkey and my dog
I'd like to be home with my monkey-
[Jim:] I don't care, shut up! Play the record!

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A new day dawns, and Billy plays with his Uncle David’s pet dog. Although he lives the wonderful, hustling and bustling Los Angeles lifestyle, he feels alienated and out-of-place, and begins to yearn for his home in Wales.

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Release Date
June 15, 1987
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