The Common Cold Lyrics

The mind breeds a strange disease

And there's no immunity

For better or for worse

We're all carriers

We got vaccines and we got vitamins

We got needles on the ends of syringes

Pumpin' miracles of modern science

And why inconvenience you

Now you can have your meds

Baked right into your cake

And you can eat it too

But can you swallow the truth?

There's still no cure

For the common cold-hearted ways

People treatin' each other

In this cold modern day

We're all so sick and tired

That it should go without saying

Take care of each other today

Some days it's so obscene

So heavy that it brings me to my knees

Got me prayin' to a god

That I don't even believe in

I wanna stand up

I wanna make a scene

I wanna scream

But it's so goddamn hard just to breathe

When my heart continues to bleed and bleed

There may be no antidote

But I know there's a treatment

It goes - I take care of you

And you take care of me

Cuz there's no cure

For the common cold-hearted ways

People treatin' each other

In this cold modern day

We're all so sick and tired

That it should go without saying

Take care of each other today