Pneumonia Lyrics

Well, here I am calling you from the pay phone

Outside your window in the rain

Like I always knew I would

Make it an iPhone if you want, it's all the same

Look at him, putting away the dishes

While I'm probably catching pneumonia

Far along on his devilish mission

To numb you with domestic euphoria

You talk to me like I'm insane

Like I'm a child who could hurt himself but

But you're the one who's lost her mind

Who's baking cookies, taking selfies with that man

Look at him smiling at the camera

While I'm definitely catching pneumonia

Pursuing his selfish chimera

To erase me from inside you

Can't you see, can't you see, can't you see?

Can't you see if he were me,

The rain a distant memory

(Can't you see? can't you see?)

As I tidy up the kitchen

Can't you see, can't you see, can't you see?

My suffering as evidentiary

Of the mistaken identity of your infatuation

Well, here I am reaching out

From a plastic chair at urgent care, what a pain

With all the Wretched strewn about

Call it an ER if you want it's all the same

Look at me, shivering and moaning

With symptoms of pneumonia

Far along on my suicidal mission

To save you from matrimonial coma

You talk to me like you're my mom

Like I've been lost and should go home but

But I'm the one who made you laugh

Whom you called "my sunshine, my lifeline"

Look at us, no longer us now

Broken apart like the Soviet Union

Me, my life but a shitshow

You a Stepford wife in training

Can't you see, can't you see, can't you see?

Can't you see if he were me,

Urgent care a distant memory

(Can't you see? can't you see?)

As we smile at the camera

Can't you see, can't you see, can't you see?

My suffering as evidentiary

Of the misguided trajectory of Cupid's arrow

Well, here you are sitting down on a wooden bench

A little hunched, in a church

You might have feared it all along

Maybe the third pew, a little closer and we could merge

Look at me, such peaceful position

Finally free from pain and pneumonia

Accomplished, my beautiful mission

To not live another day without you