Cancer Lyrics

Cancer - Tom MacDonald

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[Intro]

Everybody knows someone who's sick

40 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?

[Verse 1]

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

They done like 40 years of research, 90 billion in donations

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

Why are people still goin' through radiation? It's fuckin' 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'd 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 hospitals and the clinics

Are fillin' coffins with dollars, it's awful, let's just admit it

We're all human, we'll keep fightin' '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]

Nothin' 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

It's full of hormones and poison, our populations infected

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

We've been payin' them to kill ourselves, we're dying to keep livin'

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

We get cancer from keepin' all our demons a secret

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

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

Our best defense is livin' like we do not know what cancer is

Fight it if you have it and pray that there's somethin' 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 'til you chose to fight when you're afraid

And you can't experience strength 'til you've struggled to carry the weight

And you won't know why you have faith 'til you look the Devil in his face

And you don't know what you can take 'til 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