Take Care of Yourself lyrics

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 tryin'

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, oh.

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, oh.

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.

Well, 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.

Filling 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, oh.

Do everything you can so we don't lose ya, whoa.

Take care.

Take care of yourself, oh.

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, oh.