-Performing "Bonnet of Pins" from his new solo album, "Get Sunk," please welcome Matt Berninger!
[ Cheers and applause ] ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ It takes a lot to really disappear ♪ ♪ Always leave traces in the leaves ♪ ♪ Never thought I'd see her here ♪ ♪ Never thought I'd see her again ♪ ♪ She sidewinders through the room to me ♪ ♪ With a real cigarette and a Styrofoam coffee ♪ ♪ She's still wearing her father's feather jacket ♪ ♪ She holds out her hands, and I stand to receive her ♪ ♪ Trying to remember the last time I'd seen her ♪ ♪ Somehow she looks younger now ♪ ♪ She finishes off my drink and ♪ ♪ Puts on her bonnet of pins and says ♪ ♪ "I thought I'd find you much quicker than this ♪ ♪ You must've thought I didn't exist ♪ ♪ Poor you ♪ ♪ I do ♪ ♪ We'd better go before your boyfriends cry" ♪ ♪ She says she takes photos of tractor bones ♪ ♪ And sells 'em to model luxury homes ♪ ♪ The closest thing she's ever found to love ♪ ♪ Is the kind you can't get rid of fast enough ♪ ♪ She finishes off my drink and ♪ ♪ Puts on her bonnet of pins and says ♪ ♪ "I thought I'd find you much quicker than this ♪ ♪ You must've thought I didn't exist ♪ ♪ Poor you ♪ ♪ I do ♪ ♪ We'd better go before your boyfriends cry" ♪ Take the stairs to the bottom where the lights are out ♪ ♪ And I'll be there with a lighter ♪ ♪ And a Nabokov cocktail ♪ ♪ Forget the questionnaires and the oral histories ♪ ♪ I don't care how many times you almost said you missed me ♪ ♪ It's a cup trick shell, and it's a puff of smoke ♪ ♪ And it gets me every time, it's a pretty good joke ♪ ♪ I know that you miss me, I know that you miss me ♪ ♪ This stuff takes a lifetime ♪ ♪ She finishes off my drink and ♪ ♪ Puts on her bonnet of pins and says ♪ ♪ "I thought I'd find you much quicker than this ♪ ♪ You must've thought I didn't exist ♪ ♪ Poor you ♪ ♪ I do ♪ ♪ I thought I'd find you much quicker than this ♪ ♪ You must've thought I didn't exist ♪ ♪ Poor you ♪ ♪ I do ♪ ♪ We'd better go before your boyfriends cry" ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ [ Cheers and applause ] -There you go.
That's how you do it.
That's how you do it.
Come on.
You know.
That's how you do it right there.
Matt Berninger, everybody!
"Get Sunk" is out now!
We'll be right back, everybody!
