Medication - Damien Jurado

It just so happens I have many concerns

My brother’s 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 to spot 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»

And 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 trouble mind