Diagnosis

Lyrics

[Intro] Hey all, it's The Master here, man, just sayin' what's up Yeah it's a true story, man, it's true 'cause it's happenin' to me, yep And that's for real [Verse 1] I felt a painful lump in my arse cheek I went and saw my GP and asked him for a biopsy He said it wasn't necessary and that defeats logic He just gave me some painkillers and antibiotics Along with a bill for sixty dollars He must've been late for golf, he didn't have time to solve my problems Oh yeah, it was a problem all right I wound up in emergency waiting room all night I finally saw some sort of trainee Who claimed it wasn't a priority to expect a letter in two weeks To cut it long story short that letter never came And they said to me the lump is gettin' bigger and so is the pain After waitin' two months, I saw another GP Who rang the hospital and said he needs help immediately She gave me references to everyone I needed to see That's when my life changed drastically [Interlude 1] Yeah man, what can I say? That was the start of like, a really ultra slow out of control car collision And that's just bein' in, just waitin' You know you're gonna hit a pole or somethin' It's gonna hurt [Verse 2] But it takes so long when you're in a public system With nobody listenin', you're a second rate citizen Eventually my appointments start to roll in Every machine you've seen in the movies, I've been in And let me tell you how scary it is I felt like Homer Simpson gettin' pumped full of ink Or they'd make you drink some radioactive stuff And put you in a different machine to see what's shows up And they're forever takin' blood Biopsies, MRIs, BTs and other stuff, mostly done by trainees "Can I get a nurse that can find a vein, please?" My confidence is at an all time low Because I'm scared as hell, wantin' to know what they know And they're forever takin' notes, but won't show 'em to me Surely by now, you must know what's growin' in me [Interlude 2] Yeah man, you know it's not just that It's just like, sitting in them waiting rooms, man, like You know, like, I'm the youngest one there, on my own You know, I feel real bad 'cause I got, like these old people lookin' at me Just like, like feelin' sorry for me and stuff It's just like a bad situation No one knows what's goin' on in there At the hospital, it's a joke, man It's a bloody joke [Verse 3] Gotta do it on my own, because I've got no family Only one or two true friends that can handle me 'Cause when I'm stressed or scared I tend to swear a lot Givin' my so called fair weather friends an excuse to step off And I've never felt so lonely But I never thought my homies would disown me Alone at the tram stop, in the winter rain Of to the coronal rectal section again I roll on up, because I know the drill But this time they put me in a different waiting room to chill My gut feeling's tellin' me that this is not the best So I tell myself it's prob'ly just another test Anything to put my mind at rest In a room I won't forget everybody had the face of death Finally my name got called By some big bouncer councellor, this is not good at all At least he might have some answers He said "The news is not good, sorry mate, you've got cancer"