(in the key of Randy Newman minor)
If I had cancer, I’d be losing weight and my hair
If I lost an arm, it’d be easy to see
If I had jitters like Marty McFly
I wouldn’t need to explain why
But I can’t
I can’t
God knows I’ve tried
But you know what they say about trying
There’s a thing in my head
(You’ll have to trust me on this)
But it’s in there and it isn’t going away
Not now and not tomorrow and not the next day
It has a mouth and it has teeth
And its eating all my words
Sad thing for a writer to lose all his words
But that’s what’s happening to me
You can’t see it but it’s there
(You’ll have to trust me on this)
It’s something you just can’t see
It ate my marriage
Its eaten my friends
Ate a book I was supposed to write
And you’d think it would be happy with that
But it isn’t
It just keeps on going
And it won’t stop
No, it won’t stop
It won’t stop
Even if I beg
It gets into my arms and legs
Gets into my mouth
And I watch it
Just like it watches me
Pretty soon there won’t be anything left
Just me and it
No words
No memories
Ntoinhg
It ate my marriage
Its eaten my friends
Ate a book I was supposed to write
And you’d think it would be happy with that
But it isn’t
It just keeps on going
And it won’t stop
No, it won’t stop
It won’t stop
Even if I beg
If I had cancer, I’d be losing weight
If I lost an arm, it’d be easy to see
But it haven’t
Maybe if I did it would make it easier to believe
It has a mouth and it has teeth
And its eating all my words
Sad thing for a writer to lose all his words
But that’s what’s happening to me
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More Houses of the Blooded tonight.