T-shirt Tux

Intro: Verse There’s that girl from your work and she’s here with some guy He’s got a t-shirt tux and piano key tie The rest of us were rolling our eyes at the handshake He did with the doorman But that’s how he gets the stuff that makes him feel so important And we all need something to get through the night 'Cause the kitchen gets hot and the fingers get fried A Pontius Pilate played to the crowd And they all thought they knew what he wanted And everyone’s sorry when they see that it’s dawn I assume that’s the reason we do this And me and the guy with the piano key tie Are probably gonna play right through this Bridge Tiny little triumphs, massive bloody failures I hear that there were sailors who dread coming to shore I Guess it’s true, it’s true I guess But tonight I fear my sensors aren’t receiving at their best Verse And everyone talks about they hate that they’re here Baring their teeth and sharpening spears The stuff that they put in the punch bowl tonight Makes it too hard to pay much attention But your war of attrition turned out to be a major attraction A boy and a girl were draining their beers He said “Stalin was a weatherman to start his career And Johnny Cash was in the service when the news came through the wire And it’s weird how you feel when bad people die” She said “Yeah I guess, whatever All your fun little facts are never going to keep us together” Bridge We'll all be doomed once we leave this room We’re spinning through the turnstiles And we’re sleeping in our shoes While we’re sad in stones While we’re all hooked up at home But when we leave the house we’re homesick Got the disconnection blues There were multiple dispensers and some friends we couldn’t use Final Verse There’s a candle on the table, there’s a photo on the fridge There’s a bunch of things we said we were gonna do and never did And sometimes it’s all slippery sidewalks And trying to find a place to park Turning on a burner that never catches spark They said everything’s perception but that’s not really right Let’s all try to tell a little truth tonight Let’s all try to tell a little truth tonight