[Piano Intro]
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Verse 1
[F]
They could prescribe you any illness
[Bb]
You like, if you define the terms of
[F]
Your ailment
You could sing a pretty malady like a
[Bb]
Black canary, but a crow don't know
[C]
The smell of carbon monoxide
[F]
How many years have you been on that
[Bb]
Couch? They coulda quilt'd you in the
[F]
Throws by now
You draw a line in the sand, where it
[Eb/F] [Bb/F] [Bb]
Ends and you begin, but the tide rolls
[C]
In, so who knows? Oh, well
Pre-Chorus
[Bb] [C]
And a little identity never hurt
Nobody
[Am]
Oh but lately you've been focusing too
[Dm]
Much on yourself
[Gm7]
So how many milligrams of you are still
[C]
Left in there?
Chorus
[Bb] [C]
‘Cause back in my day we didn't need no
[Am] [Dm]
Feel-good pills, and no psychiatrists
[Bb] [Dm/A] [Gm] [Bb/F] [Gdim]
No we just drank our-selves to death
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And goddammit we liked it
Instrumental
[F] [A7] [Dm] [Bb]
[F] [Gm7b5] [F] [Db] [C]
[F] [A7] [Dm] [Bb]
[F] [Bbm]
Verse 2
[F]
Who makes the call, what's a symptom
[Bb]
What’s a flaw? Could it be both?
[F]
Well I suppose that’s an answer
Would you give up your humanity for
[Bb]
Just a touch of sanity? ‘Cause god
[C]
Knows, it’s not like it's cancer!
[F]
And good news to the purist, they
[Bb]
Discovered a cure for the symptoms
[F]
Of being alive
[Eb]
It’s a painless procedure with a low
[Bb]
Rate of failure, but very few
[C]
Patients survive!
Pre-Chorus
[Bb] [C]
And a little conformity never hurt
[Am]
Nobody, but lately I've been
[Dm]
Worried that you're losing yourself
[Gm7]
So how many milligrams of you are still
[C]
Left in there?
Chorus
[Bb] [C]
‘Cause back in my day we didn't need no
[Am] [Dm]
Feel-good pills, and no psychiatrists
[Bb] [Dm/A] [Gm] [Bb/F] [Gdim]
No we just bled out in our baths, and
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Goddammit we liked it
Instrumental
[F] [A7] [Dm] [Bb]
[F] [Gm7b5] [F] [Db] [C]
[F] [A7] [Dm] [Bb]
[F] [Bbm]
[Piano Solo]
[F] [Bb] [F] [Bb] [Gm] [C] [F] [D/F#]
[Gm] [C] [F] [F#dim] [Gm] [C] [Gm] [C] [Gm] [C]
[F] [A7] [Dm] [Bb] [F] [Bbm] [F] [Db] [C] (x2)
Bridge
[Dm]
Doctor, what's my prognosis if the
[F]
Studies show that
[C] [F]
Disease is in the eye of the beholder
[A7] [Bb]
Tell me so it goes
[C]
We depress to impress, I guess, in
[Am] [Dm]
Layer after layer to get off our
Chests
[Gm]
It’s cold out now, we can take it off
Later
[C]
Better safe than sorry and we both know
The dangers
[D] [F]
So doctor, could you run another test?
[C]
Got a feeling this time I might just
[F] [A7]
Pass it, well if you raise the
[Bb]
Average!
[C]
We all sing when the bell curve rings
[Am] [Dm]
In lyrics symptomatic of the way we
Think
[Gm]
If our harmonies don't sync, we can
[C]
Change our voices, our chorus
Unconditional of diagnosis
Chorus
[Bb] [C]
Back in my day we didn't need no feel
[Am] [Dm]
Good pills, and no psychiatrists
[Bb] [C]
What can I say except don't heed no
[Am] [Dm]
Evil wills of moral nihilists
[Bb] [C]
I said back in the days of lobotomies
[A7] [Dm]
Shock therapies, and mad scientists!
[Bb] [Dm/A] [Gm] [Bb/F] [Gdim]
Oh don't you make me waste my breath
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And goddammit—
[Instrumental Hook]
[F] [A7] [Dm] [Bb] [F] [Gm7b5] [F]
[Gm] [C] [Eb] [D] [G]
Outro
[C] [F]
Is your identity at stake? Does aspirin
[Dm]
Kill you with the pain?
You're not your thoughts, you're not
[G]
Your brain, you're just that
Character you've made
[C] [F]
Up in your head, down in your heart
[Dm]
What seem like separate body parts
[G]
Just come together to believe they're
You, and not just chemistry
[C] [F]
It’s not the way you were raised, not
[Dm]
What the advertisements say
[G]
Not what you pay for, what you pray
For, what you want or what you say
[C] [Am]
And I see your tendency to redefine
[F]
Disease by what you need
[G]
And I'm afraid I can't prescribe the
Diagnosis that you seek
[C] [Am]
But something tells me that you need
[F]
Forgive me now if I misspeak
[G]
But something tells me that you like
Yeah something tells me—
[F] [G]
That you prefer
To be sitting there flipping through
Those old issues of People
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Well that's our time, see you same time
[C]
Next week
