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