The End

Every couple of years now, a 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 you 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
Whose better for my liver
And now I'll finally recover
When I met him, I thought I was damaged goods
From a real bad neighbourhood
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 you knew it was the end of the world,
Would you like to stay a while?
Maybe we could build an arc
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
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?
'Cause my treatment starts today