When an offering is taken up at the end of the service, he makes a sign telling God that he is doing well, as he has no money to contribute.Ĭhart performance Chart (1990−1991) A sign inviting people to worship at a church.Being told to leave a restaurant because he does not meet its dress code or have a membership card, both of which are displayed on a sign.

He climbs onto the perimeter fence and berates the owners for keeping people out and fencing in the land's natural beauty. A sign outside a house warning that trespassers will be shot on sight.

He stuffs his hair into his hat in order to get an interview, then contemptuously reveals it once he has been offered the job.

A notice that 'long-haired freaky people need not apply' for a job opening.

The song's narrator describes four instances of encountering signs that anger or concern him, as follows: The song was written by Les Emmerson when he was road-tripping on Route 66 in California, and noticed the beautiful scenery was obscured by many billboards.

Some radio edits have omitted the instrumental introduction and shortened the instrumental coda for airplay, due to time constraints. Re-released in 1971 as the A-side, 'Signs' reached No. 'Signs' was originally a 1970 B-side to the relatively unsuccessful single 'Hello Melinda Goodbye' (#55 Canada). The LP 'Five Man Electrical Band' had begun as a Staccatos album with Brian Rading, the band's bassist suggesting the band's new name from the song title. It was written by the band's frontman, Les Emmerson, and popularized the relatively unknown band, who recorded it for their true first album, Good-byes and Butterflies, in 1970. ' Signs' is a song by the Canadian rock group Five Man Electrical Band. Five Man Electrical Band singles chronology

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