The Medicine Will

They sell their lies by the bottle Without an ounce of shame A promise on a slip of paper Guaranteed to dull the pain We dug that mine a mile below us And built up this little town Oh, and we're still digging holes But these are six feet down There's coal under the mountains And gold in them there pills If living here don't kill you The medicine will Well, these are good God-fearing people Just doing the best they can And if the devil's in the details Well, then hell's in milligrams For every family visitation Sons and daughters gone too soon The drugstore and the undertaker The only businesses that boom There's coal under the mountains And gold in them there pills If living here don't kill you The medicine will Ah-whoo Ah-whoo Oh-ooh, ah-ah Now it's all broken dreams and plywood Up and down these haunted streets Even the bar where we all used to go I guess even whiskey can't compete But I believe way down below us Deeper than that mine shaft runs There's a place for those who did this to us And it's hotter than the sun Coal under the mountains And gold in them there pills If living here don't kill you The medicine will