Kevin

       C
I seen pain, I felt the losses
         F
Attended funerals and seen coffins
                 Em
Twenty-one years old, an angel was 
lost here
      D5
Wings clipped by the grip of 80 
milligram sniffs of
C
Oxycontin everyday through the 
nostrils
F
Never went away, never does it stop 
there
Em
Death a line or two away and a 
couple tall cans
D5
  Cause you never know when God is 
gonna call, man
C
Precious, what we all share
F
I said peace at 5:30, the next time 
that I saw him
           Em
Was in the hands of the pallbearer
                         D5
What if I would've never gone and 
dropped him off there?
                             C
Blaming myself, in hysterics, 
screaming "It's not fair!"
                            F
Twenty-one years old with a book of 
rhymes he was gonna recite to the 
globe
     Em
Only thing to numb the pain besides 
that shit in his nose
       D5
He was gonna quit tomorrow, we're 
all gonna quit tomorrow
N.C.
Just get us through the weekend, and
 then Monday follows
N.C.
Then it's Wednesday, then it's "fuck
 it, I'm already feeling hollow"
N.C.
Might as well go crack a seal and 
might as well go chug a bottle
N.C.
Might as well go pop a pill and go 
and band-aid that problem
     C
And escape this world, vacate this 
world
      F
Cause I hate myself
                             Em    
No praying's gonna cure this pain
D5



[Chorus 1]
Continues after the ad
       C      F                   
Doctor please, give me a dose of 
    Em            D5
the American Dream
    C                           F
Put down the pen and look in my eyes
Em                         D5
  We're in the waiting room and 
something ain't right
C     F     Em                   
               All this is on you, 
D5
we're overprescribed


[Verse 2]
C
  For me and Kev
   F
He went up in jail, institutions are
 dead
         Em
And with our lives, we play Russian 
Roulette
           D5
And try to find a life where we 
could be content
          C
Cause for us, we're just trying to 
minimize
    F
The fear of being alive
           Em
And now my little brother is in the 
sky
       D5
From a pill that a doctor prescribed
                    C
That a drug dealing billion dollar 
industry supplied
             F
And the cops never go and profile at
 night
                Em
Yeah, the, the, the orange plastic 
with the white top they sell to you
D5
Has us looking for the answers and 
that instead of you
C
Quick fix, whatever'll do, we just 
gonna neglect the truth
F
Because a doctor with a license 
played God and said it's cool
N.C.
Played God and said it's cool
N.C.
But me? I don't blame Kev or his mom
 freebasing while pregnant with him
N.C.
I blame the pharmacy companies
N.C.
And country that spends trillions 
fighting the war they supplying 
themselves
N.C.
Politicians and business and jail
N.C.
Public defenders and judges who fail
N.C.
Look at Kevin, look at Kevin
N.C.
Now he's wrapped in plastic
N.C.
First dealer was his mom's medicine 
cabinet
N.C.
Got anxiety, better go and give him 
a Xanax
N.C.
Focus, give him Adderall, sleep, 
give him Ambien
N.C.
'Til he's walking 'round the city 
looking like a mannequin
N.C.
Ups and downs, shooting up 
prescriptions you're handing him
N.C.
So America, is it really worth it? 
I'm asking you


[Chorus 2]
       C      Em                  
Doctor please,  give me a dose of 
     Am            F
the American Dream
    C                           Em
Put down the pen and look in my eyes
Am                         F
  We're in the waiting room and 
something ain't right
C     Em    Am                   
               All this is on you, 
 F
we're overprescribed
C  Am  C  F


[Other]
C                      Am
  Doctor, your medicine and your 
methods
C                      F
  Can't cure my disease without 
killing me
C                  Am
  You're killing me, you're killing 
me
C                   F
  You're killing me, you're killing 
me
C                      Am
  Doctor, your medicine and your 
methods
C                      F
  Can't cure my disease without 
killing me
C                   F
  You're killing me, you're killing 
me
Em                  F
  You're killing me, you're killing 
me