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

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[D][F#][Bm][Em][D][Em][Gm][D]
[A][D][A]
[D][F#][A][D][A]

[Verse 1]
[D]They could prescribe you any illness you'd like
If you [G]define the terms of your ailment[D]s
You could sing a pretty malady
like a black canary
But [G]a crow don't know the smell
[A]of carbon monoxide
[D]How many years have
you been on that couch
They [G]could've quilt'd you
in the throws by [D]now
You draw a line in the sand where
it ends and [Dsus4]you begin
But the [G]tide rolls in,
so [A]who knows? Oh well
And [G]a little identity [A]never hurt nobody
But [F#m]lately you've been focusing
too [Bm]much on yourself
So [Em]how many milligrams of you
are still left [A]in there
Cause [G]back in my day we didn't [A]need no
feel- good [F#m]pills and no psychiat[Bm]rists
No, we just [G]drank ourselves [F#]to d[Bb]eath, and god damn it,
we liked [D]it[F#][Bm][G][D][G][D]
[Bb][A][D][F#][Bm][G][D][Gm]
[D]Who makes the call? What's a symptom,
what's a flaw
Can it be [G]both? Well I suppose
that's an an[D]swer
Would you give up your humanity
for just a touch of sanity
Cause [G]God knows it's
not like it's [A]cancer
And good [D]news to the purists: they've
discovered a cure
For the [G]symptoms of being [D]alive
It's a painless procedure
with [C]a low rate of failure
But [G]very few patients [A]survive
And a [G]little conformity [A]never hurt nobody
But [F#m]lately I've been [D]worried
that you're [G]losing yourself
So [Em]how many milligrams of you
are still left [A]in there
Cause [G]back in my day we didn't [A]need no
feel- good [F#m]pills and no psychiat[Bm]rists
No, we just bled [G]out in our [Bb]bath, and god damn it, [D]we liked [F#]it[Bm][G][D][G][Gm][D][F#][A][D]
[F#][Bm][G][D][Gm][D]
[A][D][Em]
[A][D]
[A][Em][A]
[D][B][Em][A]
[D][Ebdim][B][Em][A]
[Em][A][Em][A][Bm][A]
[D][F#][Bm][G][D][Gm][D][Bb]
[D][F#][Bm][G][D][G][D][Bb]
[Bm]
Doctor, what's my prognosis if
[D]the studies show [Bm]that[D]
Dis[Dm]ease is [D]in the eye [Em]of t[A]he beh[D]older
Tell me [F#]"so it g[G]oes"
We depress to im[A]press, I guess
[F#m]In layer after layer to get [Bm]off our chests
[Em]It's cold out now,
we can take it off later
Better safe [A]than sorry,
and we both know the danger
[Bm]So doctor,
could you run an[D]other [A]test
Got a feeling that this time
I might just [D]pass it
Well, if [F#]you raise the average
[G]We'll all sing when
[A]the bell curve rings
[F#m]In lyrics symptomatic of [Bm]the way we think
If our har[Em]monies don't sync,
we can change our voices
[A]A chorus on condition of our diagnosis
[G]Back in my day we didn't [A]need no feel-
good [F#m]pills and no psychiat[Bm]rists
[G]What can I say,
except don't [A]heed no evil [F#m]wills of moral ni[Bm]hilists
I said, [G]"Back in the days [A]of lobotomies and
shock [F#]therapy and mad [Bm]sci entists
Oh don't you make me [Em]waste my [Bb]breath. God
damn [D]it"[F#][Bm][G][D][Gm][D]
[A][B][E][E]
[A]Ain't your you- dentity at stake
[D]Does aspirin kill you with the pain
[Bm]You're not your thoughts,
you're not your brain
[E]You're just the character you've made
[A]Up in your head, down in your heart
[D]What seem like separate body par[Bm]ts
Come together to believe [E]they're you
And not just chemistry
[A]It's not the way that you were raised
[D]Or what the advertisements say
[Bm]Not what you pay for, what you pray [E]for
What you want, or what you say
[A]And I see your tendency to[F#m]
redefine disease by what you need
[D]And I'm afraid I can't prescr[E]ibe
the diagnosis that you seek
[A]And something tells me that you need
[F#m]Forgive me now if I miss[D]peak
But something tells me that you like
[E]And something tells me[D]
[D]You [E]prefer
To be sitting there flipping through
those old issues of People
Well that's our time, see you next week