Call The Doctor
Healing Hearts: A Tale of Redemption in Old Man's Bones' 'Call The Doctor'
Lyrics
Somebody call
Expressing urgency or distress, a request for help.
Call for the doctor
Reiterating the call for a doctor, emphasizing the need for medical assistance.
See my baby well she just aint well
Describing the singer's baby as unwell or in poor health.
Ah she was cruising through the streetlights
Recalling a moment when the baby was driving through illuminated streets.
Seems she tripped and
Suggesting an incident or mishap during the drive.
Then she fell
Describing a fall or stumble, indicating a potential cause of the baby's condition.
She'd been dancing in this broken city
Referring to the baby's previous activities in a troubled city.
Stepping out in that red, red, red dress
Detailing the baby's appearance in a striking red dress.
Call the Doctor maybe call the Priest
Suggesting a need for professional help, referencing both a doctor and a priest.
'Cause I'm pretty sure that she needs to confess
Stressing the importance of the baby confessing, possibly implying guilt or inner turmoil.
Yeah I know that she needs to confess
-I swear she needs to confess
-She looks at me kinda sadly
Describing the baby's remorseful expression and the plea for forgiveness, highlighting the difficulty in trying to do better.
She got tears there in her eyes
-Says won't you forgive me darling
-You know how hard I try
-You know how hard
-You know how hard
-You know how hard
-I try
-She looks at me kinda sadly
Repetition of the emotional plea, emphasizing the sincerity of the baby's remorse and effort.
Tears there in her eyes
-Says won't you forgive me darling
-You know how hard I try
-You know how hard
-You know how hard
-You know how hard
-I try
-Somebody call
Repeating the call for help, possibly indicating a growing sense of urgency.
Somebody call for the doctor
Reiterating the baby's unwell condition and the need to call for a doctor, emphasizing concern and urgency.
Somebody call
-Seems my baby just aint well
-Somebody call
-Call for the doctor
-Call for the doctor
-Call, call for the doctor
-Just call, my baby aint well
-Somebody call, just call for the doctor
Final plea for someone to call for the doctor, reinforcing the seriousness of the baby's condition.
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