Lyrics Marsha, Thankk You for the Dialectics, but I Need You to Leave.lrc Will Wood
[id: pshzatay]
[ar: Will Wood]
[al: The Normal Album]
[ti: Marsha, Thankk You for the Dialectics, but I Need You to Leave]
[length: 05:20]
[00:20.31]They could prescribe you any illness you’d like
[00:22.62]If you define the terms of your ailments
[00:25.69]You could sing a pretty malady like a black canary
[00:28.57]But a crow don’t know the smell of carbon monoxide
[00:31.75]How many years have you been on that couch
[00:34.04]They could’ve quilt’d you in the throws by now
[00:36.91]You draw a line in the sand where it ends and you begin
[00:39.95]But the tide rolls in, so who knows? Oh well
[00:42.90]And a little identity never hurt nobody
[00:45.98]But lately you’ve been focusing too much on yourself
[00:48.96]So how many milligrams of you are still left in there
[00:54.38]Cause back in my day we didn’t need no feel-good pills and no psychiatrists
[00:59.94]No, we just drank ourselves to death, and god damn it, we liked it
[01:14.98]Who makes the call? What’s a symptom, what’s a flaw
[01:17.22]Can it be both? Well I suppose that’s an answer
[01:20.25]Would you give up your humanity for just a touch of sanity
[01:23.36]Cause God knows it’s not like it’s cancer
[01:25.81]And good news to the purists: they’ve discovered a cure
[01:28.75]For the symptoms of being alive
[01:31.75]It’s a painless procedure with a low rate of failure
[01:34.73]But very few patients survive
[01:38.88]And a little conformity never hurt nobody
[01:42.04]But lately I’ve been worried that you’re losing yourself
[01:44.89]So how many milligrams of you are still left in there
[01:50.32]Cause back in my day we didn’t need no feel-good pills and no psychiatrists
[01:56.04]No, we just bled out in our bath, and god damn it, we liked it
[02:54.98]Doctor, what’s my prognosis if the studies show that
[03:00.85]Disease is in the eye of the beholder
[03:04.53]Tell me “so it goes”
[03:07.03]We depress to impress, I guess
[03:09.58]In layer after layer to get off our chests
[03:12.65]It’s cold out now, we can take it off later
[03:15.95]Better safe than sorry, and we both know the danger
[03:19.07]So doctor, could you run another test
[03:25.72]Got a feeling that this time I might just pass it
[03:29.51]Well, if you raise the average
[03:32.01]We’ll all sing when the bell curve rings
[03:34.64]In lyrics symptomatic of the way we think
[03:37.66]If our harmonies don’t sync, we can change our voices
[03:40.82]A chorus on condition of our diagnosis
[03:43.92]Back in my day we didn’t need no feel-good pills and no psychiatrists
[03:49.53]What can I say, except don’t heed no evil wills of moral nihilists
[03:54.31]I said, “Back in the days of lobotomies and shock therapy and mad scientists
[04:00.37]Oh don’t you make me waste my breath. God damn it”
[04:24.52]Ain’t your you-dentity at stake
[04:26.63]Does aspirin kill you with the pain
[04:28.63]You’re not your thoughts, you’re not your brain
[04:30.78]You’re just the character you’ve made
[04:32.85]Up in your head, down in your heart
[04:34.89]What seem like separate body parts
[04:37.14]Come together to believe they’re you
[04:39.59]And not just chemistry
[04:41.37]It’s not the way that you were raised
[04:43.38]Or what the advertisements say
[04:45.38]Not what you pay for, what you pray for
[04:47.60]What you want, or what you say
[04:49.43]And I see your tendency to redefine disease by what you need
[04:53.77]And I’m afraid I can’t prescribe the diagnosis that you seek
[04:58.06]And something tells me that you need
[05:00.06]Forgive me now if I misspeak
[05:02.01]But something tells me that you like
[05:04.14]And something tells me
[05:09.82]You prefer
[05:12.27]To be sitting there flipping through those old issues of People
[05:16.22]Well that’s our time, see you next week
[05:17.95]Year of Release: 2020