Every couple of years now, a doctor says I'm sickPulls out a brand new bag of tricks and then they lay it on meWell at first it was my brain, then a skeleton in painAnd I don't like to complain, but I'm saying it's fineWhen I met you I thought I was damaged goodsHad a * up childhoodAnd there's poison in my brain and in my bloodIf 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 hardSo I ran into the clinicAnd I asked to see the manWith his white coat and his stethoscopeLike a snake around his handAnd I told him I'm not bitterCause I finally found a loverWho's better for my liverAnd now I'll finally recoverWhen I met him I saidI thought I was damaged goodsFrom a real bad neighborhoodSo we wrestled in the mudAnd I told him he could stay right where he stoodBut I don't know if he shouldCause once my God destroys the fleshThen there's the floodIf 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 a doctor who didn't listen to my claimWhat a shame, he's circling the drainWhen I met you, I said I would never dieBut the joke was always mineCause I'm racing against timeAnd I know it's not the end of the worldBut could you pick me up at eight?Cause my treatment starts today