Originally posted on OpenSalon.com March 12, 2011
MUSIC: In my day job a do a lot of graphic work for health care providers, like doctors and hospitals. I do ads and brochures and logos. But I am also really interested in health, wellness, and medicine. And health reform. My dad was a doctor and my mom was a nurse, so medicine and health care were always around us. We lived on the same street as the hospital, so my dad could get there when he was on call.
But I think I’m getting over-exposed to medical information. I look up symptoms on the web. I research the best supplements for Kathy to take for her Huntington’s. We watch the little health blurbs on TV. About this disease – or that disorder. And then there are all the drug commercials. Ask your doctor if you should take this or that. But don’t take it if you have ever had a fungus. And you can’t miss the ads from lawyers wanting you to sue if you took the drugs they just advertised. So sometimes if I’m not careful, I start to inherit all these problems.
© Peter Lehndorff; Produced by Samuel Franklin Reynolds, Jr. Peter Lehndorff: vocals, guitar, mandolin, bass and drum midi Simbosan: midi horns, sax and strings Sam Franklin Reynolds, Jr.: background vocals
I Think I’ve Got It
©Peter Lehndorff, words and music
I was watching a doctor on TV
Talkin’ all about some new diseases_
“There’s flesh-eatin’ bugs, and cripplin’ bones
And people gettin’ cancer from cellular phones”
If you’ve got the sniffles, and you’ve got a few pains
And your knees start to hurt when it starts to rain…
He said to Drink a lotta liquids. And get some rest.
You prob’ly got the flu deep in your chest.”
Well I looked in the mirror and what did I see?
I think that doctor’s talkin’ ‘bout me.
chorus: I think I’ve got it. We think he’s got it.
I think I’ve got it. We think he’s got it.
I know it’s gonna get me in the end.
I think I’ve got it. We think he’s got it.
I think I’ve got it. We think he’s got it.
I know it’s gonna kill me I just don’t know when.
Cats have fleas. Dogs have ticks.
And if you get bit you could get really sick.
There’s killer bees comin’ from Mexico
And West Nile virus from mos-qui-toes.
So I went to the drug store for some remedies.
And some repellent to spray over me
But there were twenty sick people all waiting in line
Sneezing and coughing at the very same time
Have you seen that ad for the pharm-a-cutical
Where everyone is happy
and the weather’s always beautiful.
Well I don’t have that disease just yet
But I seem to have all the side effects:
“Men may experience a loss of hair –
Not just the top but everywhere.
You have to check your liver,
You have to check your blood
(And women who are pregnant
should wear rubber gloves).”
“Oh it might make you drowsy
or keep you up all night
It probably won’t kill you
Then again it might.”
But then they showed a picture on TV
And I swear-to-God it looked exactly like me.
chorus: I think I’ve got it. We think he’s got it.
I think I’ve got it. We think he’s got it.
I know it’s gonna get me in the end.
I think I’ve got it. We think he’s got it.
I think I’ve got it. We think he’s got it.
I know it’s gonna kill me I just don’t know when.