Bad Medicine

I was sleeping for a long long time

Waiting for the shoe to fall

It doesn't matter how hard it hit me

It wasn't really personal

I drank from the sweetest cup

Ate from the poison plate

Woke up when the sun went down

Maybe just a little too late

And it's only fair that I should pay

That very soft voice I can hear it say

Bad medicine in my veins

Never done me no good

Bad medicine in my veins

I'd bleed it out if I could

I saw you standing at the kitchen sink

At the house of a friend of a friend

I could have walked right out of there

And never come back again

But there's a fool inside my head

Likes to run me around

I was well out on the water

When I started sinking down

And it seems to me to be my fate

To rattle those chains at your front gate

Bad medicine in my veins

Never done me no good

Bad medicine in my veins

I'd bleed it out if I could

I spend a lot of my days alone

Traveling the deep and wide

Down where the good intentions

And the devil in the hole collide

Baby won't you come down here

And save me from this grind

I can feel the woman I was

Creeping up from behind

And it's only fair that I should pay

That very soft voice I can hear it say

Bad medicine in my veins

Never done me no good

Bad medicine in my veins

I'd bleed it out if I could