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    Damien Jurado - Medication

    It just so happens I have many concerns
    My brother down the road and my lover in town
    They both need affection
    And some kind of love

    Well I’m the one who gives it at any given time
    From two in the morning to six
    Call me up and cry

    My lover keeps it secret that we meet under covers
    When asked by her man if we two are lovers
    She says, “I hardly know him.
    Besides, he’s not my type.”

    Her man’s a policeman with a keen sense of trouble
    He’s known just by danger
    And all kinds of liars

    Brother called this morning in a terrible panic
    Spies in the closet, bugs in the attic
    He screams bloody murder saying,
    “We’re all gonna die.

    Death is upon me, I know ‘cause he showed me
    Pictures of graveyards and us underneath.”

    I’m losing my hearing from my brother screaming,
    “They’re coming to get me and
    Someone call the police.”

    Two in the morning, the phone disconnected
    Her man knows I’m calling, it’s what I expected
    A note on my backdoor saying, “Baby not tonight.”

    So I sit with my brother who is nursing a cut wrist
    He’s mumbling “Forgive me.”
    And “Don’t let them take me away.”

    I can be a good boy and stay out of trouble
    Jackie I love you and
    Don’t let them take your brother

    Strapped to a table, go in electrodes
    “Jackie come save me the doctors will kill me.”
    “No, they’re here to help you
    Straighten out your mind.”

    The TV is blaring with some preacher saying that
    God is among us and he hears our cries

    Lord, do me a favor
    It’s wrong but I ask you
    Take my brother’s life

    ‘Cause he’s sick of the suffering
    The pills he’s inhaling
    The cross he is bearing
    That is his troubled mind.

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