If You Never Got Sick

WALLFLOWERS

Miscellaneous

If You Never Got Sick

Album: Red Letter Days

That ain't a parachute

That ain't a rip cord

That ain't a body of water

We're headed for

There's so little time left

So much to be done

Even you are gonna need someone

That ain't a trick of light

Or the morning haze

Coming in from the lake

Getting into your eyes

It's the invisible breath

Of a storm on the rise

That I feel whenever you arrive

Now I may not be quick

Maybe never was

But tell me what the hell it is

That you've become

Baby if you never got sick

I wouldn't get to hold you

Baby if you never got sick

I would never get to hold you

This ain't a righteous love

Even a good one

These ain't the kinds of return

That I was thinking of

I'm unbearable now

You ain't seen nothing yet

You'll se me dead

Before you see me quit

That ain't a jug of wine

That you've been drinking from

Now lay back now baby

Let your fever come

I will bury you in

Just to dig you out

I haven't a use

For being proud

[chorus]

I followed you deep into a barren field

There was someone you were running from

When I needed to sleep

That's when you disappeared

But I did get the impossible done

Now I always knew

There was God inside you

I just never did learn which one

[chorus]