[Verse 1]
Like some sepulchral tableau
I sit frozen holding your hand
Though I’m trying to think only
Positive thoughts I understand

That this tomorrow
May not be the tomorrow that
Your eviscerating suffering will end
Oh, will you ever be yourself again?

[Chorus 1]
Girl with the flu, I hear the death rheum
She ain’t doin' well
Her eyes they seem cast and fatherless
Her psyche's cracked or, anyhow
She ain't speakin' now

[Verse 2]
Nightfall, like some leaden sea
Dilates as I hold vigil by your bed
Watching the pillowcase soaking with sweat around your head
I can't repel this sneaking veil of morbidity
That's disfiguring the seraph of your face
Oh, the organism's been debased
[Chorus 2]
Girl with the flu, I hear the death rune
She ain’t doin' well
Her eyes they seem cast and fatherless
Her psyche's shattered or, anyhow
She ain't speakin' now

[Bridge]
You scream that the books
Are falling off of the shelf onto you
But I can't see them
Your hallucination ravings
I'm writing them all down so
You can read them
When your mind no longer aches
And your febrility breaks

[Chorus 1 + 2]
Girl with the flu, I hear the death rune
She ain’t doin' well
Her eyes they seem cast and fatherless
Her psyche's cracked or, anyhow
She ain't speakin' now

Girl with the flu, I hear the death rune
She ain’t doin' well
Her eyes they seem cast and fatherless
Her psyche's shattered or, anyhow
She ain't speakin' now