The Medicine-John Mark McMillan

[00:11.99]Driving by those trucker stops [00:14.89]The cheap motels made of concrete rocks [00:17.63]With a hole inside your chest [00:20.26]The size of a city block [00:23.91]And I remember the day [00:25.28]When you said you weren't afraid to die [00:29.28]I don't think your brave for it [00:31.94]I just think your more afraid of being alive [01:19.40]Here's to waking up with that stone between your ribs [01:23.72]And you're lying down again [01:26.68]You just pretend you don't know what it is [01:31.42]When everyone around you says that you're not the one to blame for it [01:35.61]But you're the only one feeling the pain for it [01:39.16]So you're gonna take matters into your own hands [02:26.21][01:47.09][00:39.23]If I had the medicine [02:29.10][01:49.94][00:42.50]I'd give you the medicine [02:32.21][01:53.25][00:45.77]Cause I miss you son [02:34.87][01:56.17][00:48.73]I'd bring you back home if I was the one [02:38.40][01:59.42][00:51.53]But it's four and ten [02:41.06][02:01.94][00:54.60]In the belly of the four AM [02:44.34][02:05.10][00:57.48]And your staring down the weekend [02:47.14][02:08.20][01:00.77]To silence the pain [02:49.65][02:10.97][01:03.61]And I'm wide awake [02:52.00][02:13.05][01:05.60]And there's blood on the promenade