Edison's Medicine

You're guilty of crime in the first degree

Second and third as well

My jury finds you'll be serving your time

When you go straight to hell

Cause he was Lord of the Lightning

Though "socially frightening"

But never out to sell

Their nickels and pence

Meant more than did sense

And not the sensible thing

Nor did the man outta time, man outta time

Thought you was crazy, you was one of a kind

Man outta time, man outta time

All along, world was wrong, you was right

All that he saw, all he conceived

They just could not believe

Steinmetz and Twain were friends that remained

Along with number three

He was electromagnetic, completely kinetic

"New Wizard of the West."

But they swindled and whined that he wasn't our kind

And said Edison knew best

He was the man outta time, man outta time

Thought you was crazy, you was one of a kind

Man outta time, man outta time

Said you was outta your mind!

You took a shot and it did you in

Edison's medicine

You played your cards, but you couldn't win

Edison's medicine

I spent twelve years of hard time

More like the best years of my life

Never heard or read a single word

About "the man" and his "wicked mind."

They'll sell you on Marconi

Familiar, but a phony

Story goes they sold their souls

And swore that you'd never know

About the man outta time, man outta time

Thought you was crazy, you was one of a kind

Man outta time, man outta time

Swore you was outta your mind!

You took a shot and it did you in

Edison's medicine

You played your cards, but you couldn't win

Edison's medicine

You took a shot and it did you in

Edison's medicine

You played your cards, but you couldn't win

Edison's medicine

Thomas A