Take Care of Yourself - The Posies

Maybe you never saw much of me

As you're creeping around your history

It's true I wasn't always with you

I was so gone but you weren't forgotten

That's why I've been trying to make it up

To you in later years

I hope a father's what I am

But rationalizing's not my aim

Just to pick you up

And carry all your pain

And give you wings and not to

Always get the better of the other side

Ain't that what you call love

Take care of yourself

Do everything you can

So we don't lose ya

Showing me off all your side effects

And keeping your face

Like a silhouette in blue

Is all we're gonna get

But keep it in mind in your last regrets

As you're blowing away

Like an untethered balloon

And drifting high forever

Is that the side that turns you on

To see we missed you

After all you're gone

Take care of yourself

Do everything you can

So we don't lose ya

If I said I was letting you die

Baby I told you a lie

Maybe I'd tell you a lie

If only to keep you alive

You're writing your own prescription

Riding the lines of a minor fiction

If anyone ever could spare to lose a detail

Filing your heart

With the facts you're facing

Draining away as your blood's escaping

You could make it last forever

They say that the last time

Feels like pleasure

Feeling a smile from your unsuccessful

Breathing every memory

As I'm always to prevent your harm

These words you mock me

When you cut into your arms

Take care of yourself

Do everything you can

So we don't lose ya

Take care take care of yourself

Do everything you can

So we don't lose ya

If you think I was letting you die

Well baby I told you a lie

Maybe I'd tell you a lie

If only to keep you alive

Maybe I'd tell you a lie

If only just to keep you alive

Take care take care of yourself