[Intro]
Jimmy knew he shouldn't be interested
But, well, he was curious
What Jimmy didn't know was that Ralph was sick
A sickness that was not visible like smallpox
But no less dangerous and contagious
A sickness of the m-m-mind
[Verse 1]
It's a sickness of the mind!
(Whoo!)
(Sickness of the mind)
It's hard to define
(Get up! Okay!)
(Sickness)
My mind is rotting away
(Two steps back!)
(Sickness, sickness)
And it seems like every day
(Whoo!)
My mind gets a little more rotten and infected
(March it out!)
(Sickness of the mind)
My grey matter is on the brink of collapse
(Whoo!)
All I want to do is take a big long nap
(Gеt up! Okay!)
(Sickness of the mind)
[Chorus]
Sickness of thе mind
(Two steps back!)
(Sickness)
A disease of the mind
(Sickness)
(Whoo!)
Sickness of the mind
(Sickness of the mind)
A disease of the mind
(March it out!)
(Sickness, sickness, sickness)
(Whoo!)
[Verse 2]
Take me in from the storm
(Get up! Okay!)
I'm looking at you with filtered glasses
(Two steps back! Whoo!)
My eyes are glazing over
All I want to do is look away
(March it out!)
Your eyes
(Sickness of the mind)
Your eyes are sick
(Whoo!)
My eyes are sick
(S-s-sickness)
(Get up!)
My mind is really sick
(Okay!)
[Chorus]
I've got a sickness
(Two steps back!)
Sickness of the mind
It's hard to define
(Whoo!)
It's just a sickness, sickness, sickness
(March it out!)
Of the mind
(Sickness of the mind)
Sickness, it's a sickness
(Whoo!)
Of the mind
(Get up!)
(Sickness of the mind)
(Okay!)
[Verse 3]
Down to the city
Where the girls are pretty
(Two steps back!)
Wearing their skirts, disco lights
(Whoo!)
Everybody on the dance floor tonight
(Whoo!)
Shakin' their arms and legs
(March it out! Whoo!)
Yeah, you go to the restaurant
(Whoo!)
Everybody wants to flaunt their money
(Whoo!)
It's not funny
Everyone wants a fish stick
(Get up!)
What's a fish stick?
(Okay!)
(Sickness)
I come from another world
(Two steps back!)
Everything is swirled
(Whoo!)
Everything's distorted
And nobody seems to care
(March it out!)
(Sickness of the mind)
All I know is that the water's poison
(Whoo!)
And the air
(Get up!)
The air's a little bit different to inhale
(Sickness of the mind)
(Okay!)
[Chorus]
I've got sickness
(Two steps back!)
(Sickness)
A sickness of the mind
(Of the mind)
(Whoo!)
A sickness that's really hard to define
(March it out! Whoo!)
Hey, sickness, sickness, sickness
(Sickness)
It's a sickness
(Sickness)
It's a sickness
(Whoo!)
(Sickness!)
[Verse 3]
Get contagious!
(Whoo! Get up!)
Yeah! Get contagious!
(Okay!)
Outrageous!
(A sickness of the mind)
(Two steps back!)
Nutrageous!
That's not a candy bar where I'm from
(Whoo!)
(A sickness of the mind)
Over there we only have, like, root beer flavor
(March it out!)
(A sickness, sickness, sickness, sickness of the mind)
Yeah
Peel off the wrapper!
(Whoo!)
Peel off the wrapper!
Find something different inside!
(Get up!)
Something different, oh yeah!
(Okay!)
[Pre-bridge]
I've got a sickness of the mind, yeah!
(Two steps back!)
(Sickness of the mind)
(Whoo!)
It's kinda hard to define, yeah!
(Sickness of the mind)
(March it out!)
Sickness of the mind
(Sickness)
Screwin' open on
(Whoo!)
Electronic VCR repair, yeah
(Get up! Whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo! Okay!)
Get the lightning sizzling
(Two steps back!)
White hot heat in the back
(Whoo!)
Of the sedan, yeah
(March it out!)
(Sickness)
Go onto the highway, byway
(Sickness of the mind)
Lookin' for something?
(Whoo!)
Why not try my way?
(Sickness of the mind)
Get in the back of the sedan
(Get up!)
(Of the mind)
We'll see what we can do
(Okay!)
(Sick-sick-sick-sick-sick)
Drink some diet Shasta cola
(Two steps back!)
Try it once again
And if it isn't for you
(Whoo!)
Then it just isn't for you
I've got a sickness of the mind!
(March it out!)
[Bridge]
(Sickness of the mind)
(Good job! We're getting ready to do the grapevine!)
First of all, take a very deep breath
(Good job!)
And hold it right now
(We're getting ready to do the grapevine!)
Hold it right now
(Good job!)
Let your fingers feel like they are spreading out
(We're getting ready to do the grapevine!)
(Good job!)
Like they are elongating
(We're getting ready to do the grapevine!)
It feels so good to relax like this
(Good job!)
Such a good contrast
(We're getting ready to do the grapevine!)
From the tight, tense feeling of before
(Good job!)
Linger on the feeling and examine the contrast
(We're getting ready to do the grapevine!)
Between the way it feels right now
(Just a little bit up, keep it up)
And the way that just a moment ago
(Let's go, grapevine, yeah)
When it was very tense
[Outro]
I've got a sickness of the mind!
(Sickness of the mind)
(Whoo!)
It's kinda hard to define!
I dunno what's going on!
(Get up! Okay!)
(Sickness)
My body stretches out!
(Two steps back!)
Then it fades right in!
Like an old vignette
You don't know where I've been
(March it out!)
(Sickness of the mind)
I've been moving around
(Sickness of the mind)
In the space-time continuum
(Whoo!)
(Sickness of the mind)
Nobody knows just
(Get up!)
(Of the mind)
How I deliver 'em
(Okay!)
Hot, cold, everything
(Two steps back! Whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo!)
A swirled mist
And then you know that you don't exist!
Know that you don't exist!
(March it out!)
Yeah, I've got a sickness of the mind!
(Whoo! Get up!)
A sickness of the mind, mind, mind, yeah!
(Okay!)
Sickness!
(Two steps back!)
Sickness of the mind!
(Whoo!)
I've got a sickness of the mind, mind
(March it out!)
Mind, mind, mind, mind, mind
Mind, mind, mind, mind, mind
(Whoo!)
A sickness of the mind
(Get up!)
Sickness of the mind
(Okay! Two steps back!)
(Whoo! March it out!)
