A Tragedy Waiting to Happen Lyrics

In a world where the footing is slippery

In a joint even slipperier still

At a table where stains are all that still remains

Of a kiss, a confession, a spill

In this light we are nothing but gorgeous

Getting more gorgeous as the drinks flow

We're a tragedy, you and me, waiting to happen

Never has love stooped so low

In a world where the music is deafening

In a joint that's more deafening yet

Where the lean towards each other is compounded further

The closer to closing we get

As the lean towards each other is slipping

Inch by inch by precarious inch

We're a tragedy, you and me, waiting to happen

Both of us too dumb to flinch

On a stage that's been pelted with produce

In a piece that's been done half to death

With a cast that would promise the darkest of dramas

Half the blood, twice the laughs of Macbeth

In a world that would bet on our folly

In a joint that would cheer as we fall

In an age that would mark us as just two more carcasses

Just two more nothings at all

In this life that is trying to kill us

Love's the least of the poisons we've got

We're a tragedy, you and me, waiting to happen

I'm not afraid if you're not