The End

Album: The Great Impersonator (2024)
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  • 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
    And at first, it was my brain, then a skeleton in pain
    And I don't like to complain, but I'm saying sorry

    When I met you, I thought I was damaged goods
    Had a fucked 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 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 the doctor who didn't listen to my claim
    What a shame, he's circling a 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 8?
    'Cause my treatment starts today Writer/s: Ashley Frangipane
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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