Keeping The Customer Lyrics

I shouldn't be here

Running the restaurant

Giving fine folks their food

Isn't it clear

I can't give them what they want

'Cause it all tastes like glue

Each order I make

With a side of mistakes

With flour caked

On me like fur

And my pizza's pathetic

So don't give me the credit

If it's keeping the customer

The boss is away

And the oven has left me

These burns from the door

Day after day

My heart is as empty

As the register drawer

I'm a stone under moss

Stuck stirring the sauce

While time crawls by me

In a blur

And the feeling's abysmal

When the profits are dismal

'Cause I can't keep the customer

Beneath the base of every doubt

The realist drove the dreamer out

Replacing all my passions with a lie

Here in the hopeless humid air

With flour flying everywhere

What good's a job that makes you want to die

The only appeal

Is getting a piece of

The house pie for free

But somehow I feel

When I'm eating the pizza

It's just eating me

I'm sweaty and sour

Just counting the hours

As well as the people

My presence deters

So now what is my use if

I am not conducive

To keeping the customer

'Cause I can't keep the customer