Tom MacDonald - "Cancer" (Lyrics)

Tom MacDonald - "Cancer" (Lyrics)

 LYRICS

[Verse 1]

Everybody knows someone who's sick

Forty percent will get cancer, only half's gonna live

Your mom and your dad and your sister stand inside a room

And someone won't survive it, do you hope it isn't you?

I swear that cancer has a cure, but they're refusing to make it

They've done like forty years of research, ninety billion in donations

We've been running for the cure and wearing ribbons for ages

Why are people still going through radiation? It's fucking crazy

Hundred billion-dollar industry, they can't afford to end it

And nobody wants to die, our only option is to spend it

We give anything to stick around for just another second

Give a fortune to the doctors who promise they can extend it

The profits are astronomic, the hospital and the clinics

Of fillings coffins with dollars, it's awful, let's just admit it

We're all human, we'll keep fighting 'cause it's how we survive

But it's scary 'cause we don't know where we'll go when we die

[Chorus]

Don't give up, I know you're strong, show them all your fire

The days are hard, the nights are long

But you are a fighter, when it's dire, you burn brighter in the dark

You're a survivor, when you're tired, you hold tighter, you have heart

[Verse 2]

Nothing matters if you don't have your health

All the money in the world doesn't help

The good might go to Heaven and the bad might go to Hell

But no one wants to leave here, you can tell

And cancer touches everyone, it's in our genetics

And our world's become so toxic, it's all carcinogenic

We've polluted the water, the air; the food we're ingesting

Is full of hormones and poison, our population's infected

They sell us cigarettes and liquor, built a business on addictions

We've been paying them to kill ourselves, we're dying to keep living

It's the system, it's a prison, we keep trying to beat it

We get cancer from keeping all of our demons a secret

And our insurance don't cover the things we need to defeat it

And even if it does, then we might die from the treatment

Our best defence is living like we do not know what cancer is

Fight it if you have it and pray that there's something after this

[Chorus]

Don't give up, I know you're strong, show them all your fire

The days are hard, the nights are long

But you are a fighter, when it's dire, you burn brighter in the dark

You're a survivor, when you're tired, you hold tighter, you have heart

[Bridge]

You won't know how to be brave

Till you choose to fight when you're afraid

And you can't experience strength

Till you struggle to carry the weight

And you won't know why you have faith

Till you look the Devil in his face

And you don't know what you can take

Till you realize you didn't break

[Chorus]

Don't give up, I know you're strong, show them all your fire

The days are hard, the nights are long

But you are a fighter, when it's dire, you burn brighter in the dark

You're a survivor, when you're tired, you hold tighter, you have heart