Verse 1:
F Dm7
Every couple of years now, a doctor says I'm sick
F Dm7
Pulls out a brand new bag of tricks and then they lay it on me
F Dm7
And at first, it was my brain, then a skeleton in pain
F Dm7
And I don't like to complain, but I'm saying sorry
Pre-Chorus
Bb Am
When I met you, I thought I was damaged goods
Bb
Had a fucked up childhood
Am
And there's poison in my brain and in my blood
Bb A4
If you knew it was the end of the world
Gm9
Could you love me like a child?
F
Could you hold me in the dark?
B A4
If you knew it was the end of the world
Gm9
Would you like to stay a while?
F
Would you leave when it gets hard?
Verse 2:
F Dm7
So I ran into the clinic and I asked to see the man
F Dm7
With his white coat and his stethoscope like a snake around his hand
F Dm7
And I told him I'm not bitter 'cause I finally found a lover
F Dm7
Who's better for my liver and now I'll finally recover
Pre-Chorus
Bb Am
When I met him, I thought I was damaged goods
Bb
From a real bad neighborhood
Am
So we wrestled in the mud
Bb Am
And I told him he could stay right where he stood
Gm
But I don't know if he should
F
'Cause once my God destroys the flesh, then there's the flood
Bb A4
If you knew it was the end of the world
Gm9
Could you love me like a child?
F
Could you hold me in the dark?
B A4
If you knew it was the end of the world
Gm9
Would you like to stay a while?
F
Maybe we could build an ark
Bridge:
Bb A4
We could sail on broken driftwood through the sopping wet terrain
Gm9 F
And count the buildings and the bodies getting swallowed by the rain
Bb A4
And in the water there's the doctor who didn't listen to my claim
Dm7
What a shame, he's circling a drain
Verse 3:
Bb Am
When I met you, I said I would never die
Bb Am
But the joke was always mine 'cause I'm racing against time
Bb Am
And I know it's not the end of the world
Dm7
But could you pick me up at eight?
F
'Cause my treatment starts today