Talked Too Much, Stayed Too Long Tim Minchin

[Chorus]
Don't wanna be in your club if you'd take me as a member
I'm not even slightly interested in whether I'm remembered
I say ashes to ashes, dust to dust
Gimme a tombstone if you feel you must
Saying "Here lies a clown who wrote some songs
He talked too much and stayed too long"

[Verse 1]
Back home in Perth I played piano down at Café Piazza
Swallowing second-hand smoke and singing standards by the masters
Learnt that every lyric's sacred, that love's everything
And that three drinks make you straighten up and four get you swingin'
'Til my crowds scared the suits away and I'd play my own songs
And then we'd talk too much and stay too long
(Talk too much and stay too long)

[Verse 2]
Moved to Melbourne with my missus after locking her down
Felt like a very little fishy in a very big town
Barely scrapin' by on corporate gigs and quaint cabaret
Playing keyboards in a cover band until three in the A.M
I was never really suited to them Top Forty songs
Cause I talked too much and played too long (Ha!)

[Chorus]
Don't wanna be in your club if you'd take me as a member
I'm not even slightly interested in whether I'm remembered
I say ashes to ashes, dust to dust
Gimme a tombstone if you feel you must
Saying "Here lies a clown who wrote some songs
He talked too much and stayed too long"