Tim Minchin - Talked Too Much, Stayed Too Long lyrics

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"

Back home in Perth I played
Piano down at Café Piazza
Swallowing second hand smoke and singing
Standards by the masters
Learned 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 suit's 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)
Moved to Melbourne with my missus

After locking her down
Felt like a very little fishy
In a very big town
Barely scraping by on corporate
Gigs and quaint cabaret
Playing keyboards in a cover band
Until three in the AM
I was never really suited to
Them top 40 songs
Cause, I talked too much and played too long
Ha!

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"

Took my eyeliner to Edinburgh
In twenty oh-five (2005)
Played to 45 paying punters
On the opening night
But to my surprise there was a rising demand
For a lovechild of Liberace
And Edward Scissorhands
Dude from the papers said that
Digging me was wrong
He said I talked too much and stayed too long

I've played the Albert Hall and Wembley
I've played basements and bars
I've been to Hollywood and Broadway
Met those A-lister stars
I've shared cigarettes with knights
Shot tequila with dames
Found I'm more interested in laughter
Than in hotness and fame
So long as you got irony
Honey we'll get along
We can talk too much and stay way
Way too long 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"
You know he talked too much
And stayed too long
You know he talked too much
And stayed too long

I've been threatened with death
And arrested and hell
I went hard at a cardinal
Who was feeling unwell
I've had them dogwhistling whiners send
Their dogs after me
I've been a bigot and a faggot
I've been smug and ugly
I'm a long haired lefty joker
And a smoker of bongs
And I talked too much and stayed too long

But fuck that "live fast die young" shit
I plan on getting rickety
Baby I intend to stick around til' all
You pricks are sick of me
And when they come to wash my old
Man balls and feed me mashed banana
They'll find me in the common room
Playing blues on the piano
Same old three chords and
Cliched fuckin' runs
And I'll talk too much and stay too long
And I'll talk too much

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"

You know he talked too much
And stayed too long
You know he talked too much
And stayed too long
Another white motherfucker rambling on
He talked too much and stayed too long