[Verse 1]
Watch your mouth
Your speech is slurred enough
That you might swallow your tongue
You'd want to give up the ghost
With just a little more poise than that
Or was it God who chokes
In these situations, running late, no, no
He called in, he called in
The hospice is
A relaxing weekend getaway
Where you're a cut above all the rest
Sick and sad patients
On first name basis with all the top physicians

[Chorus 1]
Prescribed pills
To offset the shakes
To offset the pills
You know you should take
It a day at a time

[Verse 2]
That's when you stutter something profound
To the support on the line
And with the way you've been talking
Every word gets you a step closer to hell
No I just can't help it
To say what everyone else is thinking
Let me state the obvious again
[Chorus 1]
Prescribed pills
To offset the shakes
To offset the pills
You know you should take
It a day at a time
Prescribed pills
To offset the shakes
To offset the pills
You know you should take
It a day at a time

[Chorus 2]
I am
Alone in this bed, house, and head
And she never fixes this
But at least she
Makes me forget
I am
Alone in this bed, house, and head
And she never fixes this
But at least she
Makes me forget

[Chorus 1]
Prescribed pills
To offset the shakes
To offset the pills
You know you should take
It a day at a time
Prescribed pills
To offset the shakes
To offset the pills
You know you should take
It a day at a time