Iron Lung Lyrics

I cannot move my body

No feeling in my toes

This capsule's breathing for me

A tube runs down my nose

My mother stays beside me

She sleeps here every night

She is my inspiration

To not give up the fight

They say I might get better

Play basketball someday

I dream of cold spring waters

Ride rockets to the Milky Way

I think I'm getting better

That's when the pain begins

It takes all spring, all summer

Sometimes I feel my limbs

My mother stays beside me

She sleeps here every night

She is my inspiration

To not give up the fight

They say I might get better

Play basketball someday

I dream of cold spring waters

Ride rockets to the Milky Way

I'm choking

No one's around

I'm choking

Starting to drown

I bang on the bars, can't scream, can't shout

The nurses came running

Before I escape to the mountains

They suction me out

The feeding tube's removed

It's time to break away

And my first taste of ginger ale

Yeah, my first taste of ginger ale

Stays with me to this day