Let's not do this dance

You're never going to make me laugh

You never had a chance

This room was filled with clean tables

Except for the one where you sat

Oh, how the tables have turned

Against our favor

Counting all the drinks that we've earned

For later

Banking on the pressure and guilt

We put on strangers

Assuming they adhere to shame

And societal standards

These hours are getting longer by the second

Control your adolescence

They're not helping my condition

Brought upon by

This brief intermission

Caught in between two shifts where

I swore I'd just get two drinks in

Only to find myself pissing

In an alley

Behind the Tavern

You can't miss it

(It's just a few blocks from where this is)

Oh, how the tables have turned

Against our favor

Counting all the drinks that we've earned

For later

Banking on the pressure and guilt

We put on strangers

Assuming they adhere to shame

And societal standards

I think you missed a spot

Whether you knew it or not

Waiting tables for a living isn't a part

Of your vision

No one's listening

They all came to visit

And test their indecision

Now you're in the kitchen

With your coworker bitching

About that one who stiffed him

But once you get past all that bullshit you're facing

It's not about wasting your time

Or wanting to be elsewhere in life

Yeah, this is just a job

But these are the people you find

These are the people you find

We're going out tonight

We're gonna 86 this feeling

(Now I gotta do it all again.)

Oh, how the tables have turned

Against our favor

Counting all the drinks that we've earned

For later

Banking on the pressure and guilt

We put on strangers

Assuming they adhere to shame

And societal standards