Do you feel that? Oh, shit.

Wah-ah-ah-ah
Wah-ah-ah-ah

Get up, come on get down with the sickness
Get up, come on get down with the sickness
Get up, come on get down with the sickness
Open up your hate and let it flow into me

Get up, come on get down with the sickness
You mother, get up, come on get down with the sickness
You fucker, get up, come on get down with the sickness
Madness is the gift that has been given to me

I can see inside you the sickness is rising
It seems that all that was good has died
Oh no, the world is a scary place
Now that you've woken up the demon in me, in me

Wah-ah-ah
Get up, come on get down with the sickness
You mother, get up, come on get down with the sickness
You fucker, get up, come on get down with the sickness
Open up your hate and let it flow into me

Why can't you just buck up and die?
Get down with the sickness
Fuck you, I don't need this shit
Get down with the sickness
You stupid, sadistic, abusive fucking whore
Get down with the sickness
Here it comes
Get ready to die

Get ready to, die


Lyrics submitted by manprettys_panties

Down with the Sickness Lyrics as written by David Draiman Dan Donegan

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  • +1
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    "get ready to die" is the funniest part b/c of the way its sung.

    abstract_damon April 07, 2005   Link
  • +1
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    I believe it is on par with it, Richard Cheese is a good musician to listen to because he obviously doesn't take what he does that seriously, you know; He does it for the fun of it.

    Evil Aussieon December 14, 2005   Link
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    puppet_master_72, it's awesome if you forget about how the original sounds and just focus on what Richard's singing. I mean, imagine your mom singing along to this!

    MOM: "You fucker, get up, come on get down with the sickness..."

    It makes me laugh every time...

    Philemon_Crowleyon February 09, 2006   Link
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    Richard Cheese takes music to the next level. His satire and parodies of music is really quite hilarious and quite unique. I prefer Richard over Weird Al just because he takes the song and creates an entire new genre to it and pokes fun at the reality of the original song.

    .:Motley:.on September 10, 2008   Link
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    wow this song actually sounds better than the original, this song makes a great lounge tune, the lyrics and the beat all seem to flow to make this one of the best adaptations of a song to a different genre i've ever heard

    OneAngryDwarfon November 26, 2004   Link
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    i agree, this version is much better than the original. Its so funny, the words do not match the beat and the way the song is sung. Richard cheese is the funniest thing since weird al

    MSK941on January 07, 2005   Link
  • 0
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    okay you two guys suck because although it may be a cool version there is no way its better than the original

    puppet_master_72on June 26, 2005   Link
  • 0
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    The song is funny because it is just so obscure with Cheese singing this.

    Evil Aussieon March 17, 2006   Link
  • 0
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    i love it when this song is in the dawn of the dead remake, it makes me laugh..so good..

    septimusphoenixon August 11, 2006   Link
  • 0
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    i love it because it waaay takes the piss out of all of those gay songs. when you put the lyrics to a different style of music you realise how stupid and meaningless the lyrics actually are. anyhoo i love this song so much

    dick sneezeon August 27, 2006   Link

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