Under the Doctor

lyrics by the Poison Girls

You can try hard work
You can try making money
You can try to make success
You can try strong drink
Take to acting funny
Or try some liberated sex
Try overeating.  Get a new job
Have another baby
Maybe you're an artist
Lead a revolution
Take up yoga.  Or just go crazy
Trancendental meditation
Try a new diet.  Go to discos
Start again.
Try religion.  Write a novel.
Buy some makeup.  Take up jogging
Or just blame it all on the men...

What I'm trying to say
Is you gotta be strong
Cos nothing takes the pain away
For long
I don't want to go under
Under the doctor
Under under under under under

And when it gets real heavy
And you start getting stroppy
They'll deal you out
some mighty fine dope
Librium, Mogodon, Thorazine, Valium
They haven't got a pill called Hope
Thousands of us women
Been cut down by lobotomy
Terrorized by ECT
Bullied into passivity
Seduced into servility
I'm talking about you and me

What I'm trying to say
Is you gotta be strong
Cos nothing takes the pain away
For long

And I don't want to go under
Under the doctor
Under under under under under

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