“Medicine” is the fifth track from Guster’s second album Goldfly. It remains a relatively obscure cut from the record, seeing only scattered performances live since the early 2000s.
[Intro: Ryan Miller & Adam Gardner]
Into the maze
Enter the medicine handed down
Within these veins
Bleeding with apathy 'til it drowns
[Verse 1: Ryan Miller & Adam Gardner]
Am I your charity
For you to look so kind?
But your aim is not quite clear
It's better if you leave in quiet
[Pre-Chorus 1: Ryan Miller & Adam Gardner]
Is this mood frightening?
And who are you sometimes?
Don't try and rescue me
Go save someone else
I'm far too gone
[Chorus: Ryan Miller & Adam Gardner]
Into the maze
Enter the medicine handed down
Within these veins
Bleeding with apathy 'til it drowns
No more to gain
Needing the ugliness that surrounds
Return again
Caught in the medicine handed down
[Bridge: Ryan Miller & Adam Gardner/Miller]
Gasping, calling
I saw
I'm all alone
Grasping, crawling
Is this not what you had planned
Oh
I'm all alone
Go on hero
You're faking no one, not today
[Pre-Chorus 2: Ryan Miller & Adam Gardner]
Stop this you're scaring me
Don't even know you now
Trying to rescue me
Go save someone else
I'm way past gone
[Chorus: Ryan Miller & Adam Gardner]
Into the maze
Enter the medicine handed down
Within these veins
Bleeding with apathy 'til it drowns
No more to gain
Needing the ugliness that surrounds
Return again
Caught in the medicine handed down
[Chorus: Ryan Miller & Adam Gardner]
Into the maze
Enter the medicine handed down
Within these veins
Bleeding with apathy 'til it drowns
No more to gain
Needing the ugliness that surrounds
Return again
Caught in the medicine handed down
[Outro: Ryan Miller & Adam Gardner]
Oh
I'm all alone
Go on hero
You're faking no one, not today
Medicine was written by Ryan Miller.
Medicine was produced by Steve Lindsey.