Goddamn Piano

There's this goddamn piano

Pinging in my ears

Playing the same things you said without the tears

Counting off the disappointments

in 4/4 time

The melody could be better

But I can't unhear it

Those sticky notes of overdone sadness

Goddamn pianos everywhere

Cycling through the sad notes

You complained that I was insensitive

Had no capacity for tender feeling

And now here I am, beer gone sour,

being critiqued by a schmaltzy piano ballad

That repeats the same goddamn sounds

It sounds like you

(Maybe that's why I've grown to hate the melody)

The kind of song you'd have written about me

If you had any musical talent whatsoever

All long, sweeping, agonizing notes of depressive complaining

Dramatic bitch that you are

Oi! maestro! Turn it off!

People are trying to drink here!

Goddamn piano

Just like you

Can never let a body sit in peace.