Diagnosis-Neurosis
1966 · Back Stage 5002 · USA
- Artist
- The Singing Bodies
- Title
- Diagnosis-Neurosis
- Release
- Diagnosis-Neurosis / You've Gotta Feel It
- Year
- 1966
- Label
- Back Stage # 5002
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Genre
- Garage Rock · Garage Rock
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
The song "Diagnosis-Neurosis" (Back Stage Records # 5002) by The Singing Bodies. Garage rock. Draft song. Man avoids draft because he is diagnosed as being a schizophrenic.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — Garage Rock Songs
- The song "Diagnosis-Neurosis" (Back Stage Records # 5002) by The Singing Bodies. Garage rock. Draft song. Man avoids draft because he is diagnosed as being a schizophrenic.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: I'm working like a dog trying to make a piece of bread / You see I got a desk job and have to use my head / The poor man jingle-jangle like their falling of the ? / I'm trying to get a square ? in a little round hole / Oh gee what's wrong with me, diagnosis-neurosis / I hop into my car and I hear that engine revving / I get off from a red light and I hear that proper feeling / I'm flying down that freeway just a happy as can be / Can't stand anybody going faster than me / Oh gee what's wrong with me, well it's the diagnosis-neurosis / I heard ? saying that I'm a schizophrenic / The grey matter's turning black in my young being / Doctor what's the best thing, I need some therapy... / I got a little letter from my favourite Uncle Sam / He said he liked my youthfulness in sunny Vietnam / But when I took my mental test I only pulled a three / The doctor said this boy has split his personality / Oh gee, lucky lucky me, diagnosis-neurosis / Aha aha, they ain't gonna get me in no Vietnam / They all going to get shot up / But I'm going to stay here and spook them chicks / I ain't gonna, I ain't sleeping in no fox holes / I ain't putting up no tents, I ain't looking at no sergeant