Coping Mechanism Lyrics - Swimmin' Time - Shovels & Rope

I've got to find a better coping mechanism 

I'm falling apart, disintegrating in the schism 

Is it a show or is it realism 

Lost and found and then I was locked up in a prison 

I better find a more suitable solution 

Before I reach the most predictable conclusion 

To be the victim of my personal delusion 

Just to find that I've been living an illusion 

They say there's just no substitute for the real thing 

The kind of chemical that can make your whole body sing 

You can take the needle and shove it in your vein 

And call it medication to alleviate you pain 

I do my best to keep the confusion to a minimum 

I'll try not to be the monster of the millennium 

Someday they'll thank us for the hell that we was givin' em 

When all of this time we just hope we were borderline offendin' em 

They say there's just no substitute for the real thing 

The kind of chemical that can make your whole body sing 

Scrub it till you're bleedin' but you can't scrub out the stain 

Leave your mouth wide open while you're drowning in the rain 

Put your head down, wipe the spit out your eye 

Ain't nobody coming to your poor me parade 

When trouble comes to your door, what you ignoring it for 

You'll be standing there helpless when it comes on in 

They say there's just no substitute for the real thing 

The kind of chemical that'll make your whole body sing 

You can test your merit, you can show it some restraint 

But in the end you're just a predictable refrain 

Oh, ain't nothing like the real thing 

The kind of chemical that'll make your whole body sing 

You can test your merit, you can show it some restraint 

But in the end you're just a predictable refrain 

While you're poison in your brain (Cause you're heart has been mislain) 

But you're gonna die just the same (For a dream you could not attain) 

Cause you drove yourself insane (And there's nobody left to blame) 

So you just carry on an complain 

Till you forget your name