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Cancer Lyrics
{Refrain}
Everything
Everything gives you cancer
Everything
Everything gives you cancer
There's no cure, there's no answer
Everything gives you cancer
Don't touch that dial
Don't try to smile
Just take this pill
It's in your file
Don't work hard
Don't play hard
Don't plan for the graveyard
Remember
{Refrain}
Don't work by night
Don't sleep by day
You'll feel all right
But you will pay
No caffeine
No protein
No booze or
Nicotine
Remember
{Refrain}
No caffeine
No protein
No booze or
Nicotine
Remember
{Refrain twice
Everything
Everything gives you cancer
Everything
Everything gives you cancer
There's no cure, there's no answer
Everything gives you cancer
Don't touch that dial
Don't try to smile
Just take this pill
It's in your file
Don't work hard
Don't play hard
Don't plan for the graveyard
Remember
{Refrain}
Don't work by night
Don't sleep by day
You'll feel all right
But you will pay
No caffeine
No protein
No booze or
Nicotine
Remember
{Refrain}
No caffeine
No protein
No booze or
Nicotine
Remember
{Refrain twice
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Everything you need to know about this song is in the refrain.
To go a little deeper, I think it's a comment on, ironically, the AIDS crisis, as well as the exercise and fitness obsession that swept the world in the eighties. You do whatever you can, but you're fucked no matter what.