Medicine

Lyrics

Through the night You come and sit with me Hold my hand When I'm unsettled and I cannot sleep You are my medicine Heart of gold And patience of a saint Company When the ward is quiet and the hour's late You are my medicine Like a ghost In your reality Slipping through Unseen walls and boundaries From dreams and memories Please be brave If I forget your name Though it hurts My childhood friend I can see those tears You should take your medicine Broke my heart When my wife crashed the car State of shock I saw the wreckage and I saw the fire No one made it clear Yet she's here Returned from the loss Overcome So confused I talk about it all day long Taking my medicine It's not safe In this sanctuary I'm immune Someone is trying to poison me Changing my medicine Turn your back And walk out through the door Spit them out I throw the pills across the floor I'm taking my medicine Nothing left They ignore my every plea I am scared Oh why have you abandoned me? I don't know who to believe Late at night When I realise I am lost So alone I cannot stop these helpless thoughts What will become of me? Locked away There is no escape No way out Will I ever breathe the open air? Or see my home again? Can't give up The stubborn voice of will Tries to fight And find some hope where there is no hope I've given everything I collapse My resistance has run down Half closed eyes Exhausted I've worn myself out Drifting out of your reach Stay awhile Every afternoon Passing time By ourselves down the hall In the piano room We sit close And try to find a tune We get lost In the stillness of the shimmering noons Hoping a spark will bloom From the depths Childhood memories Come to life Feel the past resurfacing Washing over me Held in awe In this reverie Close to god And bliss and rapture and I can't believe The wonders I have seen Bittersweet Too real to be a dream I'm back home I'n Danesfield, Dublin 1943 In the heart of my family Mother, dear You who worship me Mother, dear I will do your bidding obediently And take my medicine Flood of tears I sob against your chest Oh my son I thought that you were someone else Taking my medicine Brings me back To when my father died Where I stood Gave away beneath me in a landslide Taking my medicine By your side I looked into his eyes And we cried We both knew it had come to this time Taking his medicine You should go This may be the last time Hold my hand And kiss my forehead as you say goodbye Take your medicine I love you That's something you can keep In your heart Now I must sleep this sweet and dreamless sleep And take my medicine You can't bring me back No matter what you try I'm never coming back No matter how much you hope I can return You can't bring me back No matter what you try I'm never coming back No matter how hard you pray I can return You can't bring me back No matter what you try I'm never coming back I can never return