Title: Tom MacDonald - "Cancer" Source:
[None] URL Source:[None] Published:Oct 19, 2020 Author:Tom MacDonald Post Date:2020-10-19 23:15:50 by A K A Stone Keywords:None Views:2838 Comments:5
I can't watch disfigured people with bolts in their face -
I agree...he's a mess.
But I had a family member die of cancer last week, so I decided I would take a look at the lyrics.
This guy Tom got some things right...and some things wrong. For instance, I don't think anyone has a cure for cancer that is being kept secret. And you know me. I'm a big "conspiracy theorist" ;-)
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
Repeat: 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
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
You won't know how to be brave To choose to fight when you're afraid And you can't experience strength Till you've struggled 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
Anyway, this family member was so scared of dying. It was heartbreaking to hear how frightened she was.
