Never Google Your Symptoms

Henrik Widegren

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[Verse 1]
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One evening, my father said: My son
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I'm dying and soon I'll be gone
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But before my final farewell:
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Hear me. And hear me well
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Do whatever you want to do
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Have a plan or roll the dice
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But one thing is strictly taboo
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Please, follow my advice


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Never google your symptoms
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That is my only prescription
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You get a hundred diagnoses
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And medieval prognoses
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Every sign is a serious condition

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[Verse 2]
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If you google 'cough' and 'diagnosis'
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You have got tuberculosis
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And if you google 'fever and red'
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You've got Ebola and soon will be dead
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And if you google 'I've a runny nose'
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It's CSF. Your brain is leaking juice!
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And if you google itch and prognosis:
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Anaphylactic chock or psychosis


[Chorus]
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So never google your symptoms
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Seldom it brings any wisdom
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You want to discover
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But you might uncover
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That you have an extra chromosome

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[Bridge]
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So this is what I heard my father say
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And then he closed his eyes and passed away
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The autopsy report was very clear
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Death from hypochondric fear
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Which is custom
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When you google
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Your symptoms


[Chorus]
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Never google your symptoms
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The hit list is never awesome
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Pain in your left arm?
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Heart attack alarm!
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Do you feel a little weak? Yes
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You've got ALS!
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If you have a slight anemia
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You've got leukemia!
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Are you a little crazy?
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You've got ADHD
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So never, ever google
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Your symptoms!