Too many mistakes, it won't take long
Which instrument's right, and which one's wrong
And clarinets are most likely to be blamed?

Hear the squeaks
And all the missed beats
It's making the song to incomplete,
And somehow I knew the director would freak out and scream.

And it's so hard to do sight-reading
With all the squawks and all the screeching.
Oh the band, didn't watch the hand,
We keep playing and screwing up faster.

And it's all good if you would
Figure out just how the music could make sense
And if I could just realize

The trumpets are all wrong,
Saxophones have the wrong song.
Clarinets weren't playing along.

If I could play
All those notes now
I'd probably play a better song
And the band director wouldn't frown as much.

I'm hearing without listening
And I'm missing all the cues that
All the flutes were supposed to play
But they didn't since they were talking way too much.

And it's so hard to do sight-reading
With all the squawks and all the screeching.
Oh the band, didn't watch the hand,
We keep playing and screwing up faster.

And it's all good if you would
Figure out just how the music could make sense
And if I could just realize

The trumpets are all wrong,
Saxophones have the wrong song.
Clarinets weren't playing along.

Trapped inside of these four walls
We don't know what to do at all,
Tenor sax is slowly screaming,
Bassoon is eating all the food
That you're not supposed to eat in band.

And it's all good if you would
Figure out just how the music could make sense
And if I could just realize

The trumpets are all wrong,
Saxophones have the wrong song.
Clarinets weren't playing along.

And it's all good if you would
Figure out just how the music could make sense
And if I could just realize

The trumpets are all wrong,
Saxophones have the wrong song.
Clarinets weren't playing along.