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