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What Good's The Medicine?

by Croy And The Boys

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1.
College came and college went I got a couple life skills but mostly debt Never should have gone it's my own damn fault Now my credits pretty bad my loans in default Yeah I went to school but never wanted to Was just doing what I thought that I had to do Doing what I thought that I had to do Got me a job but I didn't get far I got enough to get me that new used car Found me a woman who didn't mind And she works too so we pass the time I can't say now I ever loved her true Was just doing what I thought that I had to do Doing what I thought that I had to do Well you already know how this story goes I got a couple of kids before I know Took a job that I hated that paid me more Its one thing to be broke, it's another to see your kids grow up poor And I worked alot more than I wanted to Was just doing what I thought that I had to do Doing what I thought that I had to do Well my wife finally left me It's been a long time And I barely hear from them kids of mine But I still remember how it used to be When my life was out in front of me Now I got me a quiet one bedroom To sit and think about what I had to do To think of all the things that I had to do I sit and think about what I had to do I think of all the things that I had to do
2.
I have always struggled to accept what other people know Don't know what it is that makes me so skeptical I'd like to believe That things are working out There's a love inside the universe that never will go out That sounds nice But I can't let go I have seen a light but the tunnel has no end Just some dusty cracks where the sunlight trickles in I flight from ray to ray as the path is slowly shown We're better off together and yet we all try to go alone Again I'm not sure This is just what I've known Trying to keep my mind engaged in my everyday Yearning for truth and learning to accept change I guess we learn humility by settling in life I'm doubtful there's a reward and that informs my whole life So when I die Just tell 'em that I'm gone
3.
What good is real love If it's not forever What good are good times If we're not together What good's the medicine If you can't afford it And you're on it forever If somebody out there has some of the answers Then by all means please send me a message There's got to be some way to beat this Please I'm searching for something That lasts forever That makes me feel like Things are better What good's the medicine If you can't afford it And you're on it forever I know that it's out there I'm working on kicking Every day is a fight I don't think I'm winning Struggling for every necessary Don't feel like living How bad was the pain Was it worse than what came In this old trailer Without any power Finally feeling okay But I'm searching for something That lasts forever That makes me feel like Things are better What good's the medicine If you can't afford it And youre on it forever
4.
Better Man 03:46
When you're out there driving and you get that feeling and you don't know what it is but it feels uneasy Even though you know things are fine right now and they've been that way for a time right now But maybe thats the problem You're ready for a change Wanna move things forward but you don't know what it takes So you. keep on driving Hoping it'll go away I'm just trying to be a better man Than I been A better man and that's all Well I pull in my driveway and I'm sweating like hell it's funny things have been bad I'm finally doing well But I've got a taste of the stable life and I ain't making quite enough to live it right So i dream up schemes to get my money right To be the man I wanna be for my kids and my wife And if I don't make it I hope they see that I tried Maybe I'll start at home Make sure I'm sharing the load Clean when I can and keep the grass mowed No jeans in the bed if I've been wearing all night And be patient and loving when I dont feel alright Remember to look my wife in the eyes and tell her that I love her at the end of the night Spend my money on others and start putting a little aside
5.
I Get By 02:46
Most things in my life are a little bit bummy Some days are good, some days are crummy But I get by, I get by, Baby I get by With every up there's always a down Changes in my life, changes in my town But I get by, I get by Baby I get by Oh baby I get by I get by It takes more than a run of bad luck to change my mind I get by I aint saying that I thrive I aint saying I always feel good inside But I get by, I get by, Baby I get by It seems like alot of use have been let down Poverty is all around But I get by, I get by, Baby i get by
6.
I don’t know how you been feeling But i ain’t been feeling great So we talk about the good times And forget about the pain Remember, Wednesday nights At Carter park Playing peewee under real big lights Eating cow tails and drinking slushies Until 9 o’clock at night But did it happen that way Wasn’t there heart break and pain I couldn’t bat or catch I tried to stay in bed did it happen that way Wasn’t I suspended a lot Grounded a lot Picked on a lot Couldn’t wait to get out on my own some day Did it happen that way When we talk about the future We can’t help but talk about the past When things were mostly better we were still on the right path The 60’s were fun The 50’s got things done and the 40’s were brave and real Back when good still won the bad guys would run and america made the automobiles But did it happen that way Wasn’t there poverty and hate Women were stuck in the home Rural folks trapped all alone As the dust bowl raged Wasn’t there Ku Klux Klan poor work conditions Children working the fields Black lung in coal mines taking young lives away Did it happen that way Wasn't there Viet Nam The nuclear bomb Segregation And the massacres of the indian ways Didn't it happen that way
7.
My hands are dirty My hands are strong My hands can hold a shovel all day long My hands can put the work in but they can't make a living anymore God damn the working man God damn the working poor I can build a giant building I can earn a decent wage But the people who work inside of them make me feel like I'm stuck in a different age From a time before computers When you'd work with your body and your mind God damn the working man God damn the working life God damn the working man To struggle every day While the suits and ties move money around and somehow thats worth 100 times my pay God damn the working man They've taken so much away There's a few folks getting richer every year while the rest of us stay the same I put a 9 hour in the kitchen Where the ovens'll make you fry I need some new shoes bad but all my extra cash goes to a two pack habit and a mobile line Some times i feel like walking Until i finally reach the end God damn where it started, god damn where I'm at and god damn where it all ends
8.
What are you in the mood for, my mom asked of me Lets go down to Video Spectrum and rent something Horror and gore, art, noir, foreign or made for TV Something that we've known by heart or thats new to you and me What are you in the mood for, I asked my college friends Wish ya'll coulda seen Video Spectrum, my old favorite place to rent Closed a couple years after the Blockbuster came in Aw I'm just reminiscing sure lets get Anchorman again But they still had the old tapes, the stuff you'd never seen That you couldn't find anywhere else but Video Spectrum in Bowling Green I remember sneaking off to look at covers of the Russ Myers flicks And I stumbled across Bukowski in a film about poets Spending hours walking down aisles and loving every minute Learning which employees had the best employee picks What are you in the mood for, I asked my young son The Red Box by the Walgreens is the only option What did corporate pick this week It ain't art but I guess its fun But i wish i could have took him to Video Spectrum
9.
Throw Em Out 04:59
Let’s start with what i see when I close my eyes? I see a world built for you and I A world built with everyone in mind That won’t accept leaving folks behind I dream of a society That puts all of its energy into eradicating poverty And makes decisions ecologically And I’ll tell you that I believe That theres no excuse for it to be This situation where so many Are in desperate need And if the systems that we have now Can’t keep the cruelest of us from power Rewarding liars cheaters and cowards We could throw em out As for selfish intentions and greed Is that human nature like the christians believe A sin passed down through the centuries Inside each one of us apparently Thats just not how I view humanity Because when we've done our best historically It's been when living in community And solving problems collectively Can we call ourselves free Just because hypothetically We havent been forced into anything We just have no options of which to speak
10.
I know about no money I know about hard work I know about playing the fool I know about being the jerk I know about no money I know about pay day loans I know about the car ain't running I know about walking home Well I like cold ham and cheese sandwhiches But I like Peanut butter and jelly more I like my beer of the light variety And no matter how many I've had I could always have a couple more Well I like my Wrangler jeans But I wish more things were union made And I wear my shirts mostly unbuttoned And I like my stuff more the less I paid So if you see me walking down lifes highways Won't you stop and ask if I need a ride Because I have plenty of good days But i still have those days that I just break down and cry

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released August 11, 2023

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