Chemo Sucks!

From Paul: This is the second song to be born from the Songs You Can Live With album. As with Hospital Food, this song is just a spoof on the treatment processes and what the kids go through. But there is a great deal of truth in these lyrics as well, and this is where the irony of the song comes into play.

Copyright 2005 Paul C. Black. All Rights Reserved
All Wrongs Avenged!

They take me in take my blood
Always have me on the run
Lay me down sit me up
Make me go into a cup
Check my height check my weight
Temp and BP are OK
Move me here send me there
Still the people have to stare

See my counts are they low?
Time to get on with the show
Hang the bag let it pour
When it’s done then I’ll get more
I try to get up try to walk
I don’t really want to talk
Feeling tired feeling weak
I just want to go to sleep.

Chorus
Chemo Sucks!
Chemo Sucks!
Chemo Sucks!
Chemo Sucks!

Wake me up at 5 am
Time to check the labs again
See the docs on parade
Must we start another day
Feeling sick let it fly
Change the sheets and flush my lines
Watch TV until it’s noon
Lunch I won’t eats coming soon.

Start the juice through my veins
Morphine pump to ease the pain
Send me down for a scan
Someone’s there to hold my hand
Don’t give up never quit
Is there something I can hit?
4 o’clock they’re all done
One more day that I have won!

Chorus

I remember the day when a port was a place
where the ships came in.
And now the only port I know is the one underneath my skin

Send me home I’ve had enough
I just really hate this stuff
But I know I will live
So I take what they can give
When it seems hard to smile
Need some humor for a while
Next time that my doctor’s there
I picture him in underwear