Odes to Joy

Three Sheets to Kishkiyya · Track 74 · middle

Refund Your Meal

VOLUME III — being SICK, the small-hours reckoning at the porcelain. The idiom and the song's title hook: "Refund Your Meal". Its true history: US, contemporary — getting your money back by expelling the food; bone-dry deadpan. Render this beat of the night as the band's affectionate, funny, celebratory tribute — the idiom itself is the chorus hook.

Lyrics

[Intro]
Customer service is closed for the evening.
But the returns department is wide open.

[Verse 1]
You paid a premium at half past two
For a neon drink and a heavy plate
It was a high-yield asset you thought you knew
But the internal ledger says you bought too late.
The digestive tract is a modern consumer
Lacking a basic sense of humor.

[Chorus]
So go ahead and refund your meal
Cancel the contract, void the deal
March right up to the porcelain desk
And clear out the evening's sudden grotesque.
It's an American right, a transactional steal
Darling, just refund your meal.

[Verse 2]
The policy states in the fine print below
If the room starts to spin, the inventory goes.
You're kneeling down with a grievance to state
A frustrated buyer who stayed out too late.
No manager needed, no barcode to scan
Just an absolute reversal of the master plan.

[Bridge]
In the contemporary United States
We don't say we're ill when the body dictates.
We apply the logic of retail exchange
To a physical act that is perfectly strange.
Get your money back, or at least the illusion.
A fiscal fix for a liquid confusion.

[Chorus]
So go ahead and refund your meal
Cancel the contract, void the deal
March right up to the porcelain desk
And clear out the evening's sudden grotesque.
It's an American right, a transactional steal
Darling, just refund your meal.

[Outro]
Your account has been credited.
A zero balance on the night.
Thank you for shopping with Sisukiro.
Please take your... wait, I lost the slip.
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