Open Surgery - Man Alive

You can stop me if I get too far ahead

And if these words are ones you’ve already been fed

You can turn it off, you can write it off

You can leave

And I do welcome you to join in the exchange

It’s for this purpose that this forum’s been arranged

It’s where you and I can look eye to eye

And disagree

So as for you my friend, this isn’t open surgery

If it were you’d be most underqualified

You better keep those evil instruments away from me

I’ve laid here for too long

You’re fixin' me all wrong

Is there etiquette by which one can abide?

Maybe a statement of belief that can be signed?

Is there anyone to be ratted on to get in?

But as for me from this closed circle I resign

You don’t have to go pretending that you mind

I’ve just had enough and we’ve done enough

But now we’re free

So as for you my friend, this isn’t open surgery

If it were you’d be most underqualified

You better keep those evil instruments away from me

I’ve laid here for too long

You’re fixin' me all wrong

And as for you my friend, this isn’t open surgery

If it were you’d be most underqualified

You better keep those evil instruments away from me

I’ve laid here for too long

You’re fixin' me all wrong

Yes you are!