Medicine Blues

Medicine Blues - Simon Joyner

Hey

Helpless brothers

I'm talk to thee

Forget Indian summer

And you

Dreams of the sea

So I was confiding

In the toilet

I'm a prisoner of war

My echo

Said stop me

If you've heard this one before

If you want to get laid

Go strut for the bomb

Because everybody wants her

And no one

Is wrong

What color is the ocean

After the oil

It's the color

Of the sky

Cooked top been all

In aluminum foil

But the shakespeare

Cape

With the tattered seams

Suits a prince fine

Many he's suicidal

All mean

So go find me a father

Who needs to be killed

And a mother who cheats

Some blood

Can be spilled

Briefing the murderer

Under a bulb

The lawyer asked the maggot

Don't you want to get old

She can go down dignified

And pay for your sins

You can learn

To lean on me

And everybody wins

So tell me

Whose your uncle

And how do you plead

Don't look down at your shoes kid

It's time to look up to me

Wher you can't see my mirror

I cannot see you

That's what the officer

Explained

To the jew

But maybe the lines

At the define us

Are just ditches

In our heads

Besides I never had the privilege

Of any brown sugar

In my bed

But I've been to the doctor

And he swears in a nose

So I traded in my bible

For a catalog of clothes

The noble lady

Noble savage

Noble negro

Noble poor

They don't cruise the boulevard

On their halos anymore

They were forced underground

When the towers collapsed

For carrying

An imaginary

'cross on their backs

But don't worry they've been

Sterilized

And cannot breed

They sing home on the range

Around a barrel in queens

Wells

Here's to the era

Fill in the blank

And to all

Of the terror filled

Lives of the saints

And to aesop

Confucius

Aristotle

And calvin

And to the marble pillars

That humored cuckolded samson

As for me I was betrayed

The moment I asked

Myself why

When I put down my basket of berries

And stared up

At the sky

Where's my medicine

My sweet sweet medicine

All of

This time

I thought I was fine

Until I woke up

Trying to crawl out of my skin

Tell me where's my medicine