Under The Doctor

You can try hard work, you can try making money

You can try to make success

You can try strong drink, take to acting funny

Or try some liberated sex

Try overeating, get a new job

Have another baby

Maybe you're an artist, lead a revolution

Take up yoga or just go crazy

Trancendental meditation, try a new diet,

Go to discos, start again.

Try religion, write a novel.

Buy some makeup, take up jogging

Or just blame it all on the men...

What I'm trying to say

Is you gotta be strong

Cos nothing takes the pain away

For long

I don't want to go under

Under the doctor

Under under under under under

And when it gets real heavy, and you start getting stroppy

They'll deal you out some mighty fine dope

Librium, Mogodon, Thorazine, Valium

They haven't got a pill called Hope

Thousands of us women have been cut down by lobotomy

Terrorized by ECT

Bullied into passivity, seduced into servility

I'm talking about you and me

What I'm trying to say

Is you gotta be strong

Cos nothing takes the pain away

For long

And I don't want to go under

Under the doctor

Under under under under under