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The Cure

from Extraordinary by Geha

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Codi leaves a meeting with a social worker who confronted her about the fact that her mother is dying of cancer.

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CODI:
The diagnosis was a single sentence
I was sentenced with her diagnosis

I see her weaker every day
The doctors pat me on the back and say I must be strong
But I know by their faces that it’s all gone wrong
It’s all gone wrong

The medication is a poison and the science inexact
We’ve got to take out the disease and leave the body still intact
but the casualties are mounting and victory’s unsure
Yet you promise that you’re helping cause you call yourself
The cure

You tell me what I need instead of asking me if I’m okay
You think it noble that you intercede, your sympathy displayed
For all so they applaud
You say you understand, you fraud
You barely know my name
You barely know my name

The medication is a poison and the science inexact
We’ve got to take out the disease and leave the body still intact
But the casualties are mounting and victory’s unsure
Yet you promise that you’re helping cause you call yourself
The cure

So take me back to when a bad day was a science test
And I would shed a dozen tears for fear I wasn’t prettiest
But if I were to cry now, they would use it as a sign of how
My life’s out of control
And I can’t lose control

The medication is a poison and the science inexact
We’ve got to take out the disease and leave the body still intact
Nut the casualties are mounting and victory’s unsure
Yet you promise that you’re helping cause you call yourself
The cure

You force on me your expertise
But understand the cure is worse than the disease
It’s worse than the disease

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from Extraordinary, released March 21, 2012
Recorded at the original production, February 2011
Music and lyrics by Andrew Geha
© 2011 Andrew Geha

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Geha New York, New York

Andrew Geha is an award-winning playwright and theater teacher who has worked at Friends Academy, a Quaker school in Locust Valley, NY, since 2001.

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