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I´ve been sitting here all day long
not really knowing what was wrong
I´ve got a Carl Lewis kind of
running nose, all red from the countless blows
I´ve gone through a tissue box or two
I´ve come down with a nasty kind of flu
I´ve come down with one helluva flu
coincidentally it´s named after you
I´ve caught the you flu,
ever since you flew

Took you to the airport and kissed you good bye
probably for the last time, for a while
or so you told me with an unconvincing smile
You went through the security check and waved goodbye
and then it was as Bob Marley put it:
just I and I and I and I and I
and the you flu

Since you took off I feel it in my liver
I´m swinging constantly from fever to a shiver
I´ve been drinking iced beer by the liter
but it doesn´t cool my thermometer
I must have caught it in your saliva
because now I definitely have a you flu
you flu

I asked around in pharmacies, no one knew
the first thing about an ailment called you flu
Called my mom to ask her for tips
and tried to look for some YouTube clips
but all of that and my Google search fell through
seems that I´m the only guy with the you flu,
you flu

I´ve tried to do some meditating
acupuncture and self-medicating
cooked up a medieval witches brew
but nothing works on the you flu
Salty liquids pour from my eyes
a cure for this is worth a Nobel prize
And now I feel my strength is waning
I´m lying around doing casket training
Scientifically, it might be polemic
but this might turn into an epidemic
of you flu

So if you ever miss me, you know where to look
just open up a pathology text book
Since I´m the first to fall victim to
the illness which you‘ll find under you flu

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from The Early Years, released March 1, 2017

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