The End

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