Why Must You Always Dress In Black (Live from the Montreal International Jazz Festival)

You may be a cheap date
But my therapy's expansive as hell
Then you pay a psychic healer who lets you know
Things aren't really working out so well

Tomorrow's shining off our face
Yesterday's shadow is at our back
Is at our back
Tell me why must you always dress in black?

People they don't take advice
They only give it
And the only way you're ever gonna learn
Is to live it

So what you spent your younger years
Parlaying on the wrong side of the track, of the track
Now, tell me why must you always dress in black?

If you have to lie, do it quickly
And as thoroughly as you can, as you can
This morning I woke up slow
Feeling like a shell of man

"Don't blame me for us," you cried, wha
Cut me some slack, cut me some slack
And tell me why must you always dress in black?

Well, she wore high heels
She wore high heels, yeah
The ones that can
Pierce your, pierce your heart
Pierce your heart

Just 'cause you go down in history
Doesn't mean you're really all that smart
Like Robert E. Lee you're at your best
When under attack, under attack
Then tell me why, why must you always dress in black?

You call in sick on Monday
Tuesday you show up late
Wednesday you left early
Thursday you fight with a boss you hate
Friday you up and quit
Saturday you want your old job back, old job back
Sunday mornin' you wake up all dressed in black
Why must you always dress in black?