Is there no way to get it right
Just the notes like the writer wrote
Without the trills and the pregnant pause
Or the vibrato in your throat
Stand straight and true
Though your heart is broken
Though you've cried one hundred times before
When no one else could hear
Major sevenths may enchant and charm
When the cats play fast and loose
Wander off the root
To somewhere far away
You're gonna crash that piano
You're gonna crash that piano
If you don't play it straight
They go wild down the bungalow
Wait in line just to feel free
Sing the words to the songs they know
Clap along on the one and three
But the soul is gone
And so is the song
That once spoke to me
Now seems so wrong
And may have been a hoax and a con
All along
Major sevenths may enchant and charm
When the cats play last and loose
Wander off the root
To somewhere far away
You're gonna crash that piano
You're gonna crash that piano
If you don't play it straight