My Health Is Getting Better Too
Paul Geremia
Well I can see you’d like to see me hop up baby behind the fancy marble chair
Between the pictures of all your ex-fiancees and the poetry I know so well
Now baby your friends could look at me and say “that’s something I never seen”
And what the true relation of your will (??)
Well, there was a time I would have done it babe
Just to get one chance with you
But I long since changed my values
And my health is getting better too
Loneliness keeps knockin’ and callin’ me by name
‘cause the longer I stay with you baby the more I’m gonna go insane
well, baby you know you thrill me suicide might kill me
besides, I just don’t think I could stand the pain
Well, there was a time I would have done it babe
Just to get one chance with you
But I long since changed my values
And my health is getting better too
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There was a time when I wanted you baby to be with you every night
You brought me coffee in the morning baby, told me my mind was alright
Now loneliness is with me creepin’ when I was hot sometimes I was feelin’
Every ounce of what I love you now
Well, there was a time I would have done it babe
Just to get one chance with you
But I long since changed my values
And my health is getting better too
the things that used to matter
Paul Geremia
I wish that I could find a Hoodoo man to take a trip with me
Across this land from sand to sand and cure all the ills that be
But I climb the highest mountain, look as far as I can see
I’d never find a hoodoo doctor that was the likes of Franklin D
And the things that used to matter don’t mean much anymore
When the ease of the disease is more seductive than the cure
The power brokers point their fingers at all but not themselves
But their mirrors turned face to the wall the big lie they can sell
All us suckers born every minute, you’d might think it was on sale
Don’t think too, don’t talk too much, the groundhogs bringing mail
And the things that used to matter don’t mean much anymore
When the ease of the disease is more seductive than the cure
All I hear is jingle jingle north and south and east and west
Don’t worry they say about right or wrong Just keep thinking you’re the best
While in the shadows of this misery he still stands without rest
Another homeless victim cries one last gasp of freedom’s breath
And the things that used to matter don’t mean much anymore
When the ease of the disease is more seductive than the cure
That lady still stands out there, in the harbor all alone
Her legs still strong her arms out stretched with the torch she’s always shone
Well her eyes have witnessed millions who would ne’er realize their dreams
Not quelled by ocean hardships or the tyrant's raging screams
And the things that used to matter don’t mean much anymore
When the ease of the disease is more seductive than the cure
Yes lucky for us miss Liberty stands facing to the sea
If she saw what went on behind her back she’d forsake you and me
Sayin’ where’s your guts, your soul, take care of your own, clean up your own backyard
If there’s a fight you want, there’s one right here. To ease these times so hard
And the things that used to matter don’t mean much anymore
When the ease of the disease is more seductive than the cure
I wish that I could find a Hoodoo man to take a trip with me
Across this land from sand to sand and cure all the ills that be
But I climb the highest mountain, look as far as I can see
I’d never find a hoodoo doctor that was the likes of Franklin D
And I wonder just how much of this our country can endure
And which will prove more deadly - the disease or the cure
