T-Shirt Tux

There's that girl from your work and she's here with some guy

He's got a t-shirt tux and a 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 thru 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 they wanted

And everyone's sorry when they see that it's dawn

I assumed that's the reason we do this?

And me and the guy with the piano key tie

Are probably going to play right thru this

Tiny little triumphs. Massive bloody failures

I heard that there are sailors who dread coming ashore

I guess it's true. It's true I guess

But tonight I fear my sensors aren't receiving at their best

And everyone's acting like they hate that they're here

Baring their teeth and sharpening spears

The stuff that they put in the punchbowl 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

Johnny Cash was in the service

When the news came thru 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

We'll all be doomed once we leave this room

We spinning thru the turnstiles and we're sleeping in our shoes

We're sad and stoned when were 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

There's a candle on the table

There's a photo on the fridge

There's a bunch of things we said we're going to do

Then never did

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