DESCRIPTION:
Feeling the horror of the US health care system in the 1990's...and today. Black Fork was a punk band from the East Bay California 1994-1998. This song is from the album Rock For Loot (Lookout Records #172 before it went bankrupt)

"Desperation made you sick. Wheel on in and take a sit. Wait to sit, and sit to wait. Temperamental paper weight. Just a few more hours to see the magic powers. You'll get a blank tv set. And when you're old and gray you can fill out one last form.
I'm off to war now, the doc sawed off my port side bow. Let me by, so our world's can collide. Old soldier on my left just lost his head.
All my efforts thwarted yet, waste away into regret. Documentation sheet by sheet. Why my neck be bent to see.
Just a few more hours to smell the plastic flowers. When you bleed it's a cup full of greed. Emergency into antipathy.
A rubber glove counts your blessings. Too bad five fingers are missing!
Prescribe me jerk-o-cillin. Spackle me up with fillin'."