Disappointing show
I saw it, disappointing show
Man those guys blow
Disappointing show
Get your shit together
Disappointing show
Man those guys blow
Disapponting show
Man those guys blow
I tried to sing along, then it all went wrong
Disappointing show
Then the next song came along
That's when it all went wrong
And the PA fell on the crowd
Then the cops came and took us away
For an extended period of questioning about the PA
What went wrong
Should've rehearsed more
And talked about the song sequence
Disappointing show
Quoth the Johns:
This is from a live show at Columbia University in NYC. We had a new stage tech (for one day) who neglected to plug anything in before we walked on stage— leading to perhaps the most humbling show start of our humbling careers. Things went downhill from there with power failures and electronic disasters. This spontaneously written song captures the magic of the disappointment!
—John Flansburgh
[source: They Got Lost promotional email, November 6, 2002]