Intro:
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Verse 1:
FBbF
They could prescribe you any illness you like, if you define the terms of your ailment
BbC
You could sing a pretty malady like a black canary, but a crow don't know the smell of carbon monoxide
FBbF
How many years have you been on that couch? They coulda quilt'd you in the throws by now
BbFBbC
You draw a line in the sand, where it ends and you begin, but the tide rolls in, so who knows? Oh, well.
Chorus 1:
BbC
And a little identity never hurt nobody,
FDm
oh but lately you've been focusing too much on yourself
BbC
So how many milligrams of you are still left in there?
BbCFDm
‘Cause back in my day we didn't need no feel-good pills, and no psychiatrists
FBbm -nc-
No we just drank ourselves to death, and xxxxxxxxx we liked it
Instrumental -x2-: FA7BbDmGmBbFVerse 2:
FBb
Who makes the call, what's a symptom, what’s a flaw? Could it be both?
F
Well I suppose that’s some kind of answer
BbC
Would you give up your humanity for just a touch of sanity? ‘Cause god knows, it’s not like its cancer!
FBbF
And good news to the purist, they discovered a cure for the symptoms of being alive
BbC
It’s a painless procedure with a low rate of failure, but very few patients survive!
Chorus 2:
BbCFDm
And a little conformity never hurt nobody, but lately I've been worried that you're losing yourself
BbC
So how many milligrams of you are still left in there?
BbCFDm
‘Cause back in my day we didn't need no feel-good pills, and no psychiatrists
FBbm -nc-
No we just bled out in our baths, and xxxxxxxxx we liked it
Instrumental -x2-: FA7BbDmGmBbFBridge:
DmGm
Doctor, what's my prognosis if the studies show that
CF
Diease is in the eye of the beholder
A7Bb
Tell me so it goes
CAmDm
We depress to impress, I guess, in layer after layer to get off our chests
Gm
It’s cold out now, we can take it off later
CF
Better safe than sorry and we both know the dangers
DmF
So doctor, could you run another test?
CFA7Bb
Got a feeling this time I might just pass it, well if you raise the average!
BbCAmDm
We all sing when the bell curve rings, in lyrics symptomatic of the way we think
GmC
If our harmonies don't sync, we can change our voices, our Chorus unconditional of diagnosis
Chorus 3:
BbCFDm
Back in my day we didn't need no feel good pills, and no psychiatrists
BbCFDm
What can I say except don't heed no evil wills of moral nihilists
BbCADm
I said back in the days of lobotomies, shock therapies, and mad scientists!
Bbm -nc-
Oh don't you make me waste my breath, and xxxxxxxxx—
Instrumental: FA7BbDmGmBbFVerse:
CFDm
Is your identity at stake? Does aspirin kill you with the pain?
GC
You're not your thoughts, you're not your brain, you're just that character you've made
FDm
Up in your head, down in your heart, what seem like separate body parts
GC
Just come together to believe they're you, and not just chemistry
FDm
It’s not the way you were raised, not what the advertisements say
GC
Not what you pay for, what you pray for, what you want or what you say
FDm
And I see your tendency to redefine disease by what you need,
GC
and I'm afraid I can't prescribe the diagnosis that you seek
FDm
But something tells me that you need, forgive me now if I misspeak,
G
but something tells me that you like, yeah something tells me—
-nc-
That you prefer
-nc-
To be sitting there flipping through those old issues of People
-nc-
Okay thats our time, see you same time next week
This arrangement for the song is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this for private study, scholarship, or research. UkuTabs does not own any songs, lyrics or arrangements posted and/or printed.
This arrangement for the song is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this for private study, scholarship, or research. UkuTabs does not own any songs, lyrics or arrangements posted and/or printed. This arrangement was downloaded for free on UkuTabs.com.
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