The Cancer Song

Paraprotein, thalidomide,
paracetamol, MRI,
free light chains, pamidronate,
stem cell transplant, clotronate,
(ortologist?), prednisolone,
remission, dexamethasone
I've got a new vocabulary
I wish I could go back to ABC

Hello Boff so good to hear from you
Nice to talk and still be able to
Laugh at life catch up on kids
Discuss the world and think of melodies

Hello Boff how are things with you?
Nice to talk and just be able to
Feel afraid not have to hide
The way things are or put on a happy face

Hello Tracey how've you been
(Utoximad?) and Oncolin
Funny words with small talk in between

My Dad's been doing really well
Liquid food and neutrophils
Storing up the stories ee can tell

Hello Boff I want to talk to you
A simple text are things the same for you?
I'm sick of this I'm tired of life
I'm sick of sick I'm tired of waking in the night

Hello Boff I need to talk to you
How's your Dad were things this bad for you
She's lost her hair she's lost her smile
Her eyes have changed she talks of dying like a child

What's the news at bedside
EPO and cyclophosphamine
Is there a word we haven't tried

Count the stem cells what's the score?
Your Mum my Dad they're in war
What did we talk about before?

I found this book I thought I'd send to you
To read to Masie if you wanted to
It talks of life and growing up
And growing old and how we learn to say goodbye

It's funny how the things we did before
Seemed so small but now so wonderful
A simple run a walk to town
Enjoying springtime or football on t.v.

Let's skip the how are you today
The blocks of words to chip away
So tell me what the doctors have to say

And some day soon we'll talk about
Our music kids the year we had
You and me your Mum my Dad

Hello Boff so good to hear from you
Nice to talk and still be able to
Laugh at life catch up on kids
Discuss the world and think of melodies

Laugh at life catch up on kids
Discuss the world and think of melodies