You Are the Medicine

I had fallen sick while wishing on a star Fallen close to where you are I was busy telling stories that were really lies to myself That it wasn't all that hard I was in love, it was impossible Fighting with forces that were unstoppable Making believe that I could make it right I took the drug, it wasn't hard to swallow It made me Venus, it made him my Apollo A high that I rode out into the night He is the drug, you are the medicine His is the love of one that is reticent But you came along without a precedent He is the drug, you are the medicine Waking up alone on sweat soaked sheets Knees scraped to the bone Raw from praying he'd come home I was like an addict then and all my friends wished it would end Telling me I should have known I heard the crash, I felt the blood flow warm Years of my life with needles stuck in my arm Took every ounce I had to make it through Late in the night, out of a beat up car Put up a fight, picked up my old guitar Out in the avenue and there was you He is the drug, you are the medicine His is the love of one that is reticent But you came along without a precedent He is the drug, you are the medicine You are like a healer, drawing venom from a wound When you lay me down upon a bed a heather When you think it's just a streetlight but it's actually the moon Let the light that never flickers shine forever He is the drug, you are the medicine His is the love of one that is reticent But you came along without a precedent He is the drug, you are the medicine He is the drug, you are the medicine His is the love of one that is reticent But you came along without a precedent He is the drug, you are the medicine You are the medicine You are the medicine You are the medicine