Marsha, Thankk You for the Dialectics, but I Need You to Leave

[00:20.21] They could prescribe you any illness you'd like

[00:22.46] If you define the terms of your ailments

[00:25.54] You could sing a pretty malady like a black canary

[00:28.37] But a crow don't know the smell of carbon monoxide

[00:31.37] How many years have you been on that couch

[00:33.87] They could've quilt'd you in the throws by now

[00:36.72] You draw a line in the sand where it ends and you begin

[00:39.55] But the tide rolls in, so who knows? Oh well

[00:42.80] And a little identity never hurt nobody

[00:45.55] But lately you've been focusing too much on yourself

[00:48.63] So how many milligrams of you are still left in there

[00:53.89] Cause back in my day we didn't need no feel-good pills and no psychiatrists

[00:59.72] No, we just drank ourselves to death, and god damn it, we liked it

[01:14.83] Who makes the call? What's a symptom, what's a flaw

[01:16.91] Can it be both? Well I suppose that's an answer

[01:19.91] Would you give up your humanity for just a touch of sanity

[01:22.91] Cause God knows it's not like it's cancer

[01:25.66] And good news to the purists: they've discovered a cure

[01:28.41] For the symptoms of being alive

[01:31.41] It's a painless procedure with a low rate of failure

[01:34.66] But very few patients survive

[01:38.66] And a little conformity never hurt nobody

[01:41.91] But lately I've been worried that you're losing yourself

[01:44.66] So how many milligrams of you are still left in there

[01:49.91] Cause back in my day we didn't need no feel-good pills and no psychiatrists

[01:55.66] No, we just bled out in our bath, and god damn it, we liked it

[02:55.02] Doctor, what's my prognosis if the studies show that

[03:00.77] Disease is in the eye of the beholder

[03:04.36] Tell me "so it goes"

[03:06.61] We depress to impress, I guess

[03:09.36] In layer after layer to get off our chests

[03:12.61] It's cold out now, we can take it off later

[03:15.61] Better safe than sorry, and we both know the danger

[03:18.61] So doctor, could you run another test

[03:25.36] Got a feeling that this time I might just pass it

[03:29.43] Well, if you raise the average

[03:31.68] We'll all sing when the bell curve rings

[03:34.43] In lyrics symptomatic of the way we think

[03:37.43] If our harmonies don't sync, we can change our voices

[03:40.68] A chorus on condition of our diagnosis

[03:43.68] Back in my day we didn't need no feel-good pills and no psychiatrists

[03:49.44] What can I say, except don't heed no evil wills of moral nihilists

[03:54.43] I said, "Back in the days of lobotomies and shock therapy and mad scientists

[04:00.18] Oh don't you make me waste my breath. God damn it"

[04:24.43] Ain't your you-dentity at stake

[04:26.68] Does aspirin kill you with the pain

[04:28.53] You're not your thoughts, you're not your brain

[04:30.53] You're just the character you've made

[04:32.53] Up in your head, down in your heart

[04:34.53] What seem like separate body parts

[04:36.78] Come together to believe they're you

[04:39.78] And not just chemistry

[04:41.03] It's not the way that you were raised

[04:43.03] Or what the advertisements say

[04:45.03] Not what you pay for, what you pray for

[04:47.28] What you want, or what you say

[04:49.28] And I see your tendency to redefine disease by what you need

[04:53.28] And I'm afraid I can't prescribe the diagnosis that you seek

[04:57.78] And something tells me that you need

[04:59.53] Forgive me now if I misspeak

[05:01.79] But something tells me that you like

[05:04.03] And something tells me

[05:09.78] You prefer

[05:11.88] To be sitting there flipping through those old issues of People

[05:16.04] Well that's our time, see you next week