The Northwestern BearItories B: Kid Cancer - ORBS

I can’t be remembered as a great adventurer

Make a mark, or make a stain

But take it for what it is

Nothing gets to me like mediocrity

Shouldn’t have stayed, should have been on my way

But there’s a mean little bastard living inside of me

An abscess, some kind of growth

My God, that sounds so gross

They call me Kid Cancer, and now I know why

Invite me to dinner, see now I’m inside

If I can’t be a hero, I’ll be a plague

Charmed all you bears now, they’re all dead, they’re all dead

So make a mark (I've made a few)

Or make a stain (I've made those too)

And take it for (I'll take it all)

What it is

Shouldn’t have stayed, but I got carried away

Like a kid in a candy store, pocket full of razor blades

Sticking gum in sister’s hair, or in the backyard burning ants

They call me Kid Cancer, I call myself me

For what’s in a name, as long as one stains some pages of history

If these fingers were knives, the things I’d fillet…

Oh you, great attender, cause I’ll think that you’re fake

I bet these lips are dead as mine are with weight

Like any great performer, more than happy to fade

Shouldn’t have stayed, but I got fucking outplayed

And the demon advanced with a hidden agenda: me

For once a sweet young child, I guess it’s been a while

They call me Kid Cancer, a beast calls me son

I haven’t yet decided, it isn’t sure, is this fun?