If You Never Got Sick - The Wallflowers

Well that ain’t a parachute

That ain’t a ripcord

That ain’t a body of water

We’re headed for

There’s so little time left

So much to be done

Even you are gonna need someone

That ain’t a trick of light

Or the morning haze

Come on in from the lake

Get it into your eyes

This invisible breath

Of a storm on the rise

That I feel whenever you arrive

And I may not be quick

I maybe never was

But tell me whatever it is that you’ve become

Baby if you never got sick

I wouldn’t get to hold you

Baby if you never got sick

I wouldn’t get to hold you

This ain’t a righteous love

Even a good one

These ain’t the kinds of returns

That I was thinking of

I’m unbearable now, you ain’t seen nothin yet

You’ll see me dead before you see me quit

That ain’t a jug of wine that you been drinkin from

Now lay back, now baby and let your fever come

I’ll bury you in just to dig you out

I don’t have any use for being proud

And the deeper the slide

The higher the rise

Now don’t be disappointed how I’m usin mine

Baby if you never got sick

I wouldn’t get to hold you

Baby if you never got sick

I wouldn’t get to hold you

I think I made a mistake

I think I pushed when you said wait

but I never get to hold you

I followed you deep into a berry field

There was someone you were running from

When I needed to sleep that’s when you disappeared

But I did get the impossible done

And I always knew that there was god inside of you

I just never did learn which one

Baby if you never got sick

I wouldn’t get to hold you

Baby if you never got sick

I wouldn’t get to hold you

Baby if you never got sick

I would never get to hold you