'Chronic Melancholic' is really a song about my state of mind and also deals with a few issues close to me. I profess about drink and drugs and how I don't want to turn to them in an attempt to ease my problems. I also talk about individuality and stuff like that, I know, it's a bit phylosophical for me isn't it! I also use this song to thank the people who, no matter how annoying it is, listen to my problems, because they are almost the only vent I have and I am truly thankful to them. So...

Chronic Melancholic

(drum filler)

(intro)

I'd like to think
You know exactly what I am like

I'd like to know
If you know what kind of tendancies
I have...

You've seen me like this before
I get into this depressive state
I seem to seal my own fate
Before i've even begun...

Well I spose it's better than nothing
It's better being sad
Than blending with the crowd
Wear the same colour
Worship the same fad

I'd rather be like this
than be an alchoholic

(beat)

I am a chronic melancholic
Yeah...
I am a chronic melancholic
You know I get like that all the time
(i am a chronic melancholic)
You see me feeling down
Acting the stupid obsessive clown
(i am a chronic melancholic)
Sorry if it makes you sick
Better than an alchoholic
I am a chronic melancholic

(solo)

(filler)

You shouldn't have to put up
with me all the time
You shouldn't have to listen
To all the shit that comes
From my own depressive mind

You shouldn't but you do
Little things like this make you
You
I appreciate it to

It's good to have a listening ear like yours
Better than a needle or a bottle
At least with this I may be sad
But somebody's here to catch me
When I fall

(beat)

I am a chronic melancholic
Yeah...
I am a chronic melancholic
You know I get like that all the time
(i am a chronic melancholic)
You see me feeling down
Acting the stupid obsessive clown
(i am a chronic melancholic)
Sorry if it makes you sick
Better than an alchoholic
I am a chronic melancholic

(filler)

My crazy thoughts make no sense to me sometimes
Little things spark off insane anger in my mind
Sometimes

I should get some counselling someday
Anything to give you a break
Get me fixed in any sort of way

Some people say i'm pretty strong
Some people say i'm always wrong
I say that most of the time I wait too long
There's this other thing I say...

(beat)

I am a chronic melancholic
Yeah...
I am a chronic melancholic
You know I get like that all the time
(i am a chronic melancholic)
You see me feeling down
Acting the stupid obsessive clown
(i am a chronic melancholic)
Sorry if it makes you sick
Better than an alchoholic
I am a chronic melancholic

(filler)

(solo)

Maybe someday I can make my life complete
Perhaps i'll meet that special girl
Who will grab my world
And make it turn
But secretly
Inside my mind
I doubt it...

I doubt everything and everyone in my head
Most days i'll fall back to sleep in my bed

People do things to me
Without letting me see
The world around
Or the surround
That makes sure i'm confined
To the dangerous thoughts
Of my mind

(build up through next verse)

Nothing makes sense any more
My mind is empty
My mind is poor
Why can't I go back to before

(beat)

Why am I a chronic melancholic
Yeah...
I am a chronic melancholic
You know I get like that all the time
(i am a chronic melancholic)
You see me feeling down
Acting the stupid obsessive clown
(i am a chronic melancholic)
Sorry if it makes you sick
Better than an alchoholic
I am a chronic melancholic

(filler)

(solo)

I shouldn't be like this
But I am
I shouldn't be like this
But I am
I'm running
On the lam
From the powers that be
The powers that have turned me
Into an alchoholic
Into a bad person, despotic
I am a chronic melancholic...

(just drum beat and guitar)

(guitar drops out)

(fade to end)