The Medicine

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[Verse 1]
D
Driving by those trucker stops
Bm
The cheap motels made of concrete 
rocks
       G
With a hole inside your chest
              D          A
The size of a city block
    D
I remember the days
When you said you weren't afraid to 
 Bm
die
                      G
I don't think you're brave for it
                          D        
I just think you're more afraid of 
         A
being alive

[Chorus]
               G
If I had the medicine
                   A
I'd give you the medicine
         G
'Cause I miss you, son
                    A
I'd bring you back home

If I was the one
          G
But it's four and ten
                     A
In the belly of the four am
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                    G          
And you're staring down another 
                         A
weekend to silence the pain

And I'm wide awake
                           D
And there's blood on the promenade


[Solo Chords]
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[Verse 2]
D                                 
Here's to waking up with that 
                Bm
stone between your ribs
                       G
And you're lying down again
You just pretend you don't know what
    D   A
 it is
D                                 
When everyone around you says 
                   Bm
you're not the one to blame for it
But you're the only one that's 
             G
feeling the pain for it
                     D           
So you're gonna take matters into 
      A
your own hands, yeah

[Chorus]
               G
If I had the medicine
                   A
I'd give you the medicine
         G
'Cause I miss you, son
                    A
I'd bring you back home

If I was the one
          G
But it's four and ten
                     A
In the belly of the four am
                    G          
And you're staring down another 
                         A
weekend to silence the pain

And I'm wide awake
                           D
And there's blood on the promenade

[Outro CHorus]
               G
If I had the medicine
                   A
I'd give you the medicine
         G
'Cause I miss you, son
                    A
I'd bring you back home

If I was the one
          G
But it's four and ten
                     A
In the belly of the four am
                    G          
And you're staring down another 
                         A
weekend to silence the pain

And I'm wide awake
                     D
And there's blood