Medication

Wake up everyday to a practice cemented in the rocks
Take me away to where no traveler's returned
Sweet venom seeps beneath the cold bedrocks
Make dreams of oceans from ponds and broken ferns
My medication don't care if I live or die
Ain't nobody's fault but mine

I've lived off mercury fumes of burning grass
Down south where there used to be a winding road
Liquor and amphetamines passed out to please the mass
Down where voodoo dancers don't sing no more
But my medication don't care if I live or die
Ain't nobody's fault but mine

My pride belongs now where a church used to live
Got tired of pretending like I was pretending to fake
What I couldn't get, they wanted me to give
And what they couldn't give, they wanted me to take
Well, I got my medication to live and to die
It ain't nobody's fault but mine

Nowadays seems clean water's hard to come by
When you're trying to get to the bottom of a boiling sea
Even a gambler's got to learn to make himself a life
Even if he trades his soul for a morsel of a meal
But his medication don't care if he lives or dies
Ain't nobody's fault but his

I'm sleepless now in a bottomless boat
Looking down on Capitol Hill where all the fires start and stop
Used to have a knot in the back of my throat
But I let it all in thinking I'd die for a bit of hope
This medication don't care if I live or die
Ain't nobody's fault but mine

Well, this medication don't care if I live or die
Ain't nobody's fault but mine
Yeah, you know this medication don't care if I live or die
Ain't nobody's fault but mine