Medicine Bottle Lyrics

Medicine Bottle lyrics

giving into love and sharing my time

letting someone into my misery

i told it all step by step

how i landed on the island

and how i swam across the sea

and it crosses my mind

that i may wake to a knife in me

no more breath in my hair

or ladies' underwear

tossed up over the alarm clock

blood dripping from the bed

to a neatly written poem

a heartfelt last line reading

there is no more mystery

it it going to happen my love



it's all in your head she said

morning after nightmare

you're building a wall she said

higher than the both of us

so try living life

instead of hiding in the bedroom

show me a smile

and i'll promise not to leave you



it happened under a rainy cloud

passing through the dark south

we went into a big house

and slept in a small bed

i didn't know you then

as well as you of me

we talked of our sad lives

and we went off separately

i found your overseas souvenirs

holiday greeting cards

and some long forgotten high school fears

it's all in my head i said

banging a piano

i've not been so alone i thought

since kicking in the womb

i drank so much tea

i wrote my letters in kanji

around the block i walked and walked

pretending you were with me

not wanting to die out here

without you



the hurting never ends

like birthdays and old friends

we forget what is flesh blood and bone is human

turning phone lines to airlines

unwilling to face

the love is found on the inside not the outside

and like a medicine bottle

in the cabinet i'll keep you

and like a medicine bottle

in my hand i will hold you

and swallow you slowly

as to last me a lifetime

without holding too tight

i do not want to lose

the thrill that it gives me

to look out from my window

and scowl at the houses

from my world in the bedroom

it's all in my head she read

in her girlfriend's self-help book

it's all his own making

a war with himself

like two sides of a wall

that separates two countries

he shuts out the world

and wants only to love you



not wanting to die out here

without you