Shovels & Rope - Coping mechanism

I’ve got to find a bette^Cr coping mechanism ^G I’m falling apart, disin^Ctegrating in the schism ^G Is it a show or ^Dis it realism ^C Lost and found and then I was ^Glocked up ^Cin a pr^Gison

I better find a more ^Csuitable solution ^G Before I reach the most pre^Cdictable conclusion ^G To be the victim of my ^Dpersonal delusion ^C Just to find that I’ve bee^Gn livin^Cg an ^Gillusion

^GThey say there’s just no substitute for th^Ce real thing The kind of chemical that can ^Gmake your ^Cwhole body ^Gsing You can take the ^Dneedle and shove it in your ^D7vein And call it medi^Gcation to ^Calleviate you ^Gpain

I do my best to keep the con^Cfusion to a minimum ^G I’ll try not to be th^Ce monster of the millennium ^G Someday they’ll thank us for th^De hell that we was givin’ e^Cm When all of this time we just hope we were ^Gborder^Cline of^Gfendin’ em

^GThey say there’s just no substitute for th^Ce real thing The kind of chemical that can ^Gmake your ^Cwhole body ^Gsing Scrub it till you’r^De bleedin’ but you can’t scrub ou^D7t the stain Leave your mouth wide ^Gopen while you’r^Ce drowning in th^Ge rain ^Em

Put your head dow^Gn, wipe the spit out your eye ^Em Ain’t nobody coming to you^Gr poor me parade ^Em When trouble comes to your doo^Gr, what you ignoring it for You’ll b^Ae standing there helpless when i^Dt comes on in

^DThey say there’s just no substitute for th^Ce real thing The kind of chemical that’l^Gl make you^Cr whole bod^Gy sing You can test your ^Dmerit, you can show it some res^D7traint But in the end you’re just ^Ga predic^Ctable ^Grefrain

Oh, ain’t nothing like th^Ce real thing The kind of chemical that’l^Gl make you^Cr whole bod^Gy sing You can test your ^Dmerit, you can show it some res^D7traint But in the end you’re just ^Ga predic^Ctable ^Grefrain

While you’r^Ce poison in you^Gr brain (Cause you’re heart has been mislain) But you’r^Ce gonna die just th^Ge same (For a dream you could not attain) Cause you ^Cdrove yourself ^Ginsane (And there’s nobody left to blame) So you just ^Ccarry on an ^Gcomplain Till ^Cyou forget your ^Gname