Complete Lyrics Of "The Medicine's Kicking In"

MY GREEN GRASS GROWS

I was a young man when I took my leave
I still cant believe all the things that iʼve seen
I been chasing people I been chasing cash
oh lord I wish I had some of that time back
they say theres a reason - dont open those holes in your heart
I worked em all day long and the winds are blowing strong
so i took the hinges off the door, pushed open the window and swept the floor
I emptied my cupboards, I gave my meals away
i said Iʼm ready for a brand new day
a new day to be waiting for nothing on the other side
a new day to see how my green grass grows
well iʼm still looking for that higher ground
even through I know that it canʼt be found
thereʼs a love running in my blood
when i try to share it comes like a flood
Weʼre wading through the ashes of the bang that got this party started
sometimes I feel like a crasher, but today, iʼm in on the action
thereʼs a ruby footed woman out on the plain
everyones telling her itʼs gonna rain
get ready for the wind to blow, get ready the kind of fame
that makes wonder if itʼs worth all the pain
my spyglass roams the ocean, all i see is blue
that dont mean I dont know where my green grass grows

FIND IT EASY

Take the time if you can get it to be free and alive
cause these seconds are fleeting, I can hardly look into your eyes
We might find it easy, we might find it hard.
Shooting arrows in the dark, looking for a place to land
My mindʼs always on the horizon, chasing after the sun
Might find it easy, might find it hard.
Lay you down in the meadow, two lovers breathing one breath
Chasing visions in the night, born in the morning fire, I'll be yours forever more.
Iʼm putting my hands to the wheel, will anyone remember us when we get out of here?
We might find it easy, we might find it hard.

I KNOW CHANGE

In the morning when I go down
In the morning when i go down
Iʼm tired of dragging myself around
Iʼm no fool, I know change
I know change
resting on heavenʼs divide, thereʼs a tone i try to hide but the notes just hang in the air
Iʼm tired of driving myself around, tired of driving myself around
Iʼm no fool, I know change
I know change
Turn your radio on, turn your radio on

AMERICA, I NEED YOU

America, I need you more than ever before, love
youʼre buzzin on my fingers as I sleep tonight
The new york lights like a fever in the distance
theyʼre taking a stand in my old hometown
Machine gun america Iʼm on your joyride
feet hanging out the door as the miles roll on by
I got a crush on you and your sisters
Donʼt leave me hanging on this big open road
You got that magic thing that i just canʼt get enough of
You got that magic thing that keeps me hanging on
They built a mountain for us to rise above
The grade is steep, the peak is unknown
How are the views, where does that flag wave?
Is this what you really had in mind?
America I need you more than ever before love
How do you keep me coming back for more?
You got that magic thing that i just canʼt get enough of
You got that magic thing that keeps me hanging on
Wu used to sing of the Rocky mts and the mississippi river
open up those old veins weʼre coming home
I can see you smiling through the clouds now
I read you like an eagle a hundred yards away
I could pick you out of any old photograph
Your endearing desperation always on display
America i need you more than ever before love
How do you keep me coming back for more?
You got that magic thing that i just canʼt get enough of
You got that magic thing that keeps me hanging on

SOULS COLLIDE

In the back of my minds eyes you been hanging around
traded everything for a memory
soul secret survives
soft lines in the curving light, your rolling eyes
our souls collide
we push, you pull, we go falling down
never more, never to be
why do we lock it away
dark shapes they take everything
i know where to go
our souls collide

FLOAT HIGH ABOVE

I left the mountain top to go get real
with the urchins down on the avenue
I was drinking and sleeping with the creatures down on Cannery Row
she stole the smoke right outta my lungs
she left me electric and all alone
in my vagabond poem
Hey boy, look out for the fire
thatʼs turning your mind into a disease
you been wandering these burning streets
looking in strange eyes for clues
the shadows and lights are speaking
a language you and the angels know
You broke through the clouds
You float high above
the lights were spinning around the room
with new born eyes we'll be coming home soon
you keeping looking for that knowledge
now you come knockin when all the worlds silent 
where do you go?
You broke through the clouds
You float high above

ROCKIN' CHAIR BLUES

With a strike of lightning
freedom came falling out of the air
I could taste it and breath it too
There was plenty of it to spare.
I ainʼt waiting for the young and the able
to come along and do what they can.
Iʼm putting it all on the table,
thereʼs no day to be waiting for.
The rain painted the pavement with a wet glow, made it look like gold.
These rocking chair blues got me bad,
let me rock, rock away.
Hey old friend hows your soul today?
Whatʼs getting in your way?
Me too, thatʼs where Iʼm at, but weʼre pushing on through.
God I wish I could jump from my skin,
maybe get a brand new tattoo.
Something to remind me how to live,
soon as i remember I forget.
All these songs sound the same,
happy, lonesome, or sad
Oh these rocking chair blues got me bad
let me rock, rock away.
Maybe itʼs time I found my desert island
where thereʼs nothing to do.
Nowhere to be and nowhere to go,
Youʼre a wave and then youʼre gone.
Gotta get it out before that door closes,
before it swings wide open. 
You break out of your body and sneak outta your brain
so you can hear the holy note
you can hear that holy note.
Oh my thoughts, theyʼre going crazy,
working through these rocking chair blues.
Oh my minds going crazy too,
thinking through these rocking chair blues.
Love and laughter gonna get us through,
thatʼs what the rocking chair blues come to say
as I sat staring out my window one day,
let me rock rock away,
let me rock rock away.

SLIPPERY SLOPE

she wrote me in the middle of the day
she wrote me said baby I got something to say
she wrote me in the middle of the day
said baby Iʼm hear to stay
my heart was shaking
and my voice was quaking
cause every bone said boy, you found your home
Iʼm falling down that slippery slope of love
so I went down to the sunday market
found me where the fireweed honey was dripping slow
bought a bouquet of bright fresh flowers
and took a while to walk a mile in the sunshine
stepping on her stairs I knew there was nowhere
nowhere that I would rather be
iʼm falling down that slippery slope of love
Iʼm falling down that slippery slope of love

LET THE WIND CARRY YOU HOME

I went looking for the darkness
I went looking for the fight
Had to find how far I would fall
before I let the light catch me
Let the light catch you now
let the wind carry you home
Let the light catch you now
Let the wind carry you home
Say goodbye to the bitter days
We canʼt pretend that theyʼve ended
little by little weʼre mended
as the hands of fate bend us
Wounded bird is beating itʼs wings
sheʼs singing again
Sheʼs leaving the branches
destination unknown
Let the light catch you now
let the wind carry you home
Let the light catch you now
Let the wind carry you hoe
carry you home

THE DARK SIDE OF THE ROAD

Ain't it funny how the wind will pick you up,
spin you around, drop you right back where you started from?
But nothing looks the same anymore.
Old choices seem so obvious now.
My body and spirit are broken,
no more can I labor for another man.
I say I feel no sorrow, but the tears are like tiny soldiers,
pouring over the hillside.
I'm on the run I'm looking for someone.
You may call her a memory but she's no memory to me.
You are the sun after the rain.
You are the sun after the rain.
On this dark road I'm a lonesome traveller,
quietly passing by the fires
lit by the warmth of human kindness.
On this dark road I'm looking for you
in every dewdrop and every dusty step,
in every turning leaf
every wild animal eye.
I'm on the dark side of the road,
I'm looking for you.
I'm on the dark side of the road,
I'm looking for you
You are the sun after the rain.
You are the sun after the rain

WALKING BACKWARDS

Well theres too many people and too many problems
too many reasons to get out of here
I tried to get a piece of the pie
but they ate it while I waited.
They charged me twenty whole dollars
and asked me how it tasted
Thatʼs not the dream that I was promised
but i think i maybe Iʼve been spoiled rotten.
And I know that I have forgotten.
Weʼre walking backwards
walking backwards so we can see where weʼre from.
Weʼre walking backwards
walking backwards so we can see where weʼre from.
There are many that have come before us,
many more that are on our heels.
Thereʼs a sweet sweet smell thats in the air
and I want my babies to taste it.
Weʼre walking backwards
walking backwards so we can see where weʼre from.
Weʼre walking backwards
walking backwards so we can see where weʼre from.
Well the highway is crumbling and the seas are rough
and the captain is owned by the wrecking yard.
Weʼve go to put our hands together
lifting each other up one by one.
You can kill the dreamers but you canʼt kill the dream
and i see a new day rising
Oh my son
can i hold you?
can i take you there with me?

THIS LEAKING OLD BOAT

In this leaking old boat we wind on down the road.
We wind on down the road.
In this leaking old boat we find our way around
Find our way around
We're old and we're golden,
we're young and we're free,
the same old mission
just to be what we'll be.
Sleeping on the docs underneath the stars
arms in the ocean a thousand miles long.
In this leaking old boat, we wind on down the road
we find our way around
In this old fortress we fend off ne'erdowells.
We're old and we're golden,
we're young and we're free,
the same old mission
just to be what we'll be.
Sleeping on a bed of stars in the milky way
shining down through the sky right into your eyes
We were made from the mountain,
we were made from the wind,
there's nothing more mysterious
than this, my friend
We're old and we're golden,
we're young and we're free,
the same old mission
just to be what we'll be.
the same old mission
just to be what we'll be
We're old and we're golden,
we're young and we're free.