C
every couple of years now,
Dm
a doctor says i'm sick
C
pulls out a brand new bag of tricks
Dm
and then they lay it on me
C
and at first, it was my brain,
Dm
then a skeleton in pain
C
and i don't like to complain,
Dm
but i'm saying sorry
F
when i met you,
C
i thought i was damaged goods
F
had a fucked up childhood
C
and there's poison in my brain and in my blood
Chorus
F Em
if you knew it was the end of the world
Dm
could you love me like a child?
C
could you hold me in the dark?
F Em
if you knew it was the end of the world
Dm
would you like to stay a while?
C
would you leave when it gets hard?
C
so i ran into the clinic and
Dm
i asked to see the man
C
with his white coat and his stethoscope
Dm
Like a snake around his hand
C
and i told him i'm not bitter
Dm
'cause i finally found a lover
C
who's better for my liver,
Dm
and now i'll finally recover
F
when i met him,
C
i thought i was damaged goods
F
from a real bad neighborhood
C
so we wrestled in the mud
F
and i told him he could
C
stay right where he stood
F
but i don't know if he should
C
'cause once my God destroys the flesh,
then there's the flood
Chorus
F Em
if you knew it was the end of the world
Dm
could you love me like a child?
C
could you hold me in the dark?
F Em
if you knew it was the end of the world
Dm
would you like to stay a while?
C
Maybe we could build an ark
F
we could sail on broken driftwood
Em
through the sopping wet terrain
Dm
and count the buildings and the bodies
C
getting swallowed by the rain
F
and in the water,
Em
there's the doctor who didn't listen to my claim
Dm
what a shame, he's circling a drain
Outro
F
when i met you,
C
i said i would never die
F
but the joke was always mine
C
'cause i'm racing against time
F Em
and i know it's not the end of the world,
Dm
but could you pick me up at 8?
C
'cause my treatment starts today
