The Doctor Is Calling
Risk
1999
Duration: 5:40
Track number: 6
Writers
Lyrics by: Dave Mustaine
Music by: Dave Mustaine, David Ellefson, Nick Menza
Theme
A dark, highly personal track dealing with **mental instability, institutionalization, and recovery**. The 'doctor is calling' represents a moment of crisis and external intervention into a mind that is 'falling' and struggling to distinguish reality from the 'voices in the dark room.'
Lyrics
The **doctor is calling**
The **doctor is calling**
Something's gone wrong
Nowhere do I belong
I listen to the voices in the dark room
Something's going down
But I can't make a sound
Looking past the bars of my mind
The coat of arms falling
I hear the **doctor calling**
The family crest is falling
I hear the **doctor calling**
Always sharing trips
Remove me from your lips
Sight and mind still and never go away
One too many tantrums
Deviated symptoms
Better lock the phantom away
The coat of arms falling
I hear the **doctor calling**
The family crest is falling
I hear the **doctor calling**
I see the chalk line crawling
I hear the **doctor calling** me away
This place is my home
My mind still runs free
The doctor's prescription
Less for you and more for me
The coat of arms falling
I hear the **doctor calling**
The family crest is falling
I hear the **doctor calling**
I see the chalk line crawling
I hear the **doctor calling**
A merciful embalming
I hear, I hear, I hear the **doctor calling** me away





