Every couple of years now

The doctor says I'm sick

Pulls out a brand-new bag of tricks

And then they lay it on me

Well, 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 we 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 is 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 we 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

Oh, what a shame

He's circling the 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 8.00?

'cause my treatment starts today.