Every Couple Of Years Now,A Doctor Says I'm SickPulls Out A Brand New Bag Of TricksAnd Then They Lay It On MeAnd At First, It Was My Brain,Then A Skeleton In PainAnd I Don't Like To Complain,But I'm Saying SorryWhen I Met You,I Thought I Was Damaged GoodsHad A Fucked Up ChildhoodAnd There's Poison In My Brain And In My BloodChorusIf You Knew It Was The End Of The WorldCould You Love Me Like A Child?Could You Hold Me In The Dark?If You Knew It Was The End Of The WorldWould You Like To Stay A While?Would You Leave When It Gets Hard?So I Ran Into The Clinic AndI Asked To See The ManWith His White Coat And His StethoscopeLike A Snake Around His HandAnd I Told Him I'm Not Bitter'Cause I Finally Found A LoverWho's Better For My Liver,And Now I'll Finally RecoverWhen I Met Him,I Thought I Was Damaged GoodsFrom A Real Bad NeighborhoodSo We Wrestled In The MudAnd I Told Him He CouldStay Right Where He StoodBut I Don't Know If He Should'Cause Once My God Destroys The Flesh,Then There's The FloodChorusIf You Knew It Was The End Of The WorldCould You Love Me Like A Child?Could You Hold Me In The Dark?If You Knew It Was The End Of The WorldWould You Like To Stay A While?Maybe We Could Build An ArkWe Could Sail On Broken DriftwoodThrough The Sopping Wet TerrainAnd Count The Buildings And The BodiesGetting Swallowed By The RainAnd In The Water,There's The Doctor Who Didn't Listen To My ClaimWhat A Shame, He's Circling A DrainOutroWhen I Met You,I Said I Would Never DieBut The Joke Was Always Mine'Cause I'm Racing Against TimeAnd I Know It's Not The End Of The World,But Could You Pick Me Up At 8?'Cause My Treatment Starts Today