Piano Intro
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Verse 1
They Could Prescribe You Any Illness
You Like, If You Define The Terms Of
Your Ailment
You Could Sing A Pretty Malady Like A
Black Canary, But A Crow Don't Know
The Smell Of Carbon Monoxide
How Many Years Have You Been On That
Couch? They Coulda Quilt'd You In The
Throws By Now
You Draw A Line In The Sand, Where It
Ends And You Begin, But The Tide Rolls
In, So Who Knows? Oh, Well
Pre-Chorus
And A Little Identity Never Hurt
Nobody
Oh But Lately You've Been Focusing Too
Much On Yourself
So How Many Milligrams Of You Are Still
Left In There?
Chorus
‘Cause Back In My Day We Didn't Need No
Feel-Good Pills, And No Psychiatrists
No We Just Drank Our-Selves To Death
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And Goddammit We Liked It
Instrumental
Verse 2
Who Makes The Call, What's A Symptom
What’s A Flaw? Could It Be Both?
Well I Suppose That’s An Answer
Would You Give Up Your Humanity For
Just A Touch Of Sanity? ‘Cause God
Knows, It’s Not Like It's Cancer!
And Good News To The Purist, They
Discovered A Cure For The Symptoms
Of Being Alive
It’s A Painless Procedure With A Low
Rate Of Failure, But Very Few
Patients Survive!
Pre-Chorus
And A Little Conformity Never Hurt
Nobody, But Lately I've Been
Worried That You're Losing Yourself
So How Many Milligrams Of You Are Still
Left In There?
Chorus
‘Cause Back In My Day We Didn't Need No
Feel-Good Pills, And No Psychiatrists
No We Just Bled Out In Our Baths, And
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Goddammit We Liked It
Instrumental
Piano Solo
Bridge
Doctor, What's My Prognosis If The
Studies Show That
Disease Is In The Eye Of The Beholder
Tell Me So It Goes
We Depress To Impress, I Guess, In
Layer After Layer To Get Off Our
Chests
It’s Cold Out Now, We Can Take It Off
Later
Better Safe Than Sorry And We Both Know
The Dangers
So Doctor, Could You Run Another Test?
Got A Feeling This Time I Might Just
Pass It, Well If You Raise The
Average!
We All Sing When The Bell Curve Rings
In Lyrics Symptomatic Of The Way We
Think
If Our Harmonies Don't Sync, We Can
Change Our Voices, Our Chorus
Unconditional Of Diagnosis
Chorus
Back In My Day We Didn't Need No Feel
Good Pills, And No Psychiatrists
What Can I Say Except Don't Heed No
Evil Wills Of Moral Nihilists
I Said Back In The Days Of Lobotomies
Shock Therapies, And Mad Scientists!
Oh Don't You Make Me Waste My Breath
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And Goddammit—
Instrumental Hook
Outro
Is Your Identity At Stake? Does Aspirin
Kill You With The Pain?
You're Not Your Thoughts, You're Not
Your Brain, You're Just That
Character You've Made
Up In Your Head, Down In Your Heart
What Seem Like Separate Body Parts
Just Come Together To Believe They're
You, And Not Just Chemistry
It’s Not The Way You Were Raised, Not
What The Advertisements Say
Not What You Pay For, What You Pray
For, What You Want Or What You Say
And I See Your Tendency To Redefine
Disease By What You Need
And I'm Afraid I Can't Prescribe The
Diagnosis That You Seek
But Something Tells Me That You Need
Forgive Me Now If I Misspeak
But Something Tells Me That You Like
Yeah Something Tells Me—
That You Prefer
To Be Sitting There Flipping Through
Those Old Issues Of People
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Well That's Our Time, See You Same Time
Next Week
