When we first met you gave me a book

Love In The Ruins the title

When later you left that book on the shelf

I knew that it had to be final

It turned out to be a story of doom

We read the first chapter together

But I still continued to read in my room

And hoped it would go on forever

Doctor dear doctor I know how you feel

There's so many people you're dyin' to heal

And all you can do is the best you can do

Doctor dear doctor it's all up to you

A boy from the south with a hole in his heart

Thought he would marry an actress

I bought him a bed from a second hand store

With a queen sized extra firm matress

I followed the characters hangin' on the edge

A Merle Haggard record was playing

Closing my eyes as we lay on the bed

I could not hear what they were saying

Doctor dear doctor I know how you feel

There's so many people you're dyin' to heal

And all you can do is the best you can do

Doctor dear doctor it's all up to you

And how could you leave me at a time like this

How could you leave me at all

Haven't you heard this is serious

I'll pick up the telephone and call I'll call

Doctor dear doctor I know how you feel

There's so many people you're dyin' to heal

And all you can do is the best you can do

Doctor dear doctor it's all up to you

Doctor dear doctor I know how you feel

So many people are cryin'

And all you can do is the best you can do

Doctor dear doctor keep tryin'