Got a call there’s one for NICU just delivered in room nine

Doctor says, “She doesn’t want it,” he’s not one for wasting time

The mother cries and shivers as the blood pools at her ass

“Just tell me what it was you took and when you took it last”

And all around the warmer, there’s a wall of gowns and scrubs

To weigh and score the infant, do the bracelets, give the drugs.

Doctor threads a careful suture, the forms are signed and filed

Mom is dazed with pain and wonder, cut in two by the living child

A perfect little peanut, no bedbug bites or burns

She steals a glance at baby’s face and to the wall she turns

Then just an hour later and she’s gone out AMA

To find the mercy to forget what happened here today.

So welcome to the outside, kid; we’ve both got work to do

I don’t have what you’re needing, but I’ll help to get you through

Let you suck my latex finger, cut your hair and bag your pee

Give you half a mg of comfort in a world of tubes and beeps

And when you’ve beat the jones and you’re in one piece, more or less

I’ll see you off along the road that’s anybody’s guess.

Chords: (4/4)

      G                     D          Em               D

Got a call there’s one for NICU just delivered in room nine

        C                  G                 Am               D

Doctor says, “She doesn’t want it,” he’s not one for wasting time

     G                 D              Em               D

The mother cries and shivers as the blood pools at her ass

       C               G       Em       C        D       G     G7

“Just tell me what it was you took and when you took it last”

    C      Am       G     Em             Am     Am7         D

And all around the warmer,    there’s a wall of gowns and scrubs

    C         Am    G         Em          Am       D           G

To weigh and score the infant,    do the bracelets, give the drugs.