Coping Mechanism

G C G C G I’ve got to find a better coping mechanism C G I’m falling apart, disintegrating in the schism D C Is it a show or is it realism G C G Lost and found and then I was locked up in a prison C G I better find a more suitable solution C G Before I reach the most predictable conclusion D C To be the victim of my personal delusion G C G Just to find that I’ve been living an illusion G C They say there’s just no substitute for the real thing G C G The kind of chemical that can make your whole body sing D D7 You can take the needle and shove it in your vein G C G And call it medication to alleviate you pain C G I do my best to keep the confusion to a minimum C G I’ll try not to be the monster of the millennium D C Someday they’ll thank us for the hell that we was givin’ em G C G When all of this time we just hope we were borderline offendin’ em G C They say there’s just no substitute for the real thing G C G The kind of chemical that can make your whole body sing D D7 Scrub it till you’re bleedin’ but you can’t scrub out the stain G C G Em Leave your mouth wide open while you’re drowning in the rain G Em Put your head down, wipe the spit out your eye G Em Ain’t nobody coming to your poor me parade G When trouble comes to your door, what you ignoring it for A D You’ll be standing there helpless when it comes on in D C They say there’s just no substitute for the real thing G C G The kind of chemical that’ll make your whole body sing D D7 You can test your merit, you can show it some restraint G C G But in the end you’re just a predictable refrain C Oh, ain’t nothing like the real thing G C G The kind of chemical that’ll make your whole body sing D D7 You can test your merit, you can show it some restraint G C G But in the end you’re just a predictable refrain C G While you’re poison in your brain (Cause you’re heart has been mislain) C G But you’re gonna die just the same (For a dream you could not attain) C G Cause you drove yourself insane (And there’s nobody left to blame) C G So you just carry on an complain C G Till you forget your name