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BREAKING DOWN
(TO THE MOLECULAR LEVEL)
Copyright © 2000 - mickterry.com

I'm sorry to say it. I hate to admit,
but I'm falling to pieces since we had our split.
My bodily functions are starting to cease.
& it won't be too long 'til I'm done.
Immunity systems are starting to crash.
& my skin has developed a really nice rash.
I'm certain about it. I'm fully convinced:
your having just left me is coincidence.

    I'm BREAKING DOWN all the way
    TO THE MOLECULAR LEVEL.
    I'm BREAKING DOWN and it doesn't stop there.

My hair's started dropping what's there that is left.
& the slightest exertion gives shortness of breath.
My muscles are aching from toes to the head.
& it won't be too long 'til I'm done.
My stomach's distended. I can't even bend.
& then, whatever exits comes out the wrong end.
I'm certain about it. I'm fully convinced:
your having just left me is coincidence.

    CHORUS

        So I get me admitted: Emergency Care.
        & I'm poked & I'm prodded & stuck everywhere,
        including this wonderful tube up my nose
        & tortuous things they can do with a hose.
        With everything in me that's falling apart,
        they must have forgotten to look at my heart.
        I'm sure that I had one the last time I checked,
        but again, I was feeling not quite such a wreck.

    CHORUS:

Five days full of testing, they find nothing wrong.
With no reason to hold me, they send me on home.
I'm left to go figure it's all in my mind.
& it won't be too long 'til I'm done.
I spend several days just revising my will,
when the postman delivers the hospital bill:
Immediate shock & it's cardiac time  .................................................................................................

        "Take two placebos and call me in the morning ... "

Copyright © 2000  MICK TERRY  Silent Tree Music  All rights reserved
[ Reprinted here by permission of the composer-lyricist ]   BMI
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