When you reach a certain age you get through the day with whatever medication the doc thinks might work, all nicely lined up in the medicine cabinet. By the time you've downed the handful, or whatever you're just about ready to go. Those pills in the bottle make their own special sound - I like to think of it like a rattlesnake in a jar...
This is a rough acoustic 'at home' demo just designed for registration and working out with the band.
One of the least 'English' sounding songs I've written in recent times. Let me know what you think.
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Pain in my head - buzzing like a hive
Powders and jelly-beans keeping me alive
Take one of these, take one of those
It takes a lot of stuff to keep me on my toes
Cracking like the frosting on a birthday cake
Shaking in my skin like an old earthquake
Wish I had a choice but it’s how things are
Shaking all the sweeties in my Rattlesnake Jar
I’m sick and tired of this daily grind
Popping all these pain pills is skewing my mind
Take one of these, take one of those
Open up the gizzard and down they goes
spinning like a rooster on an old church spire
I’m running on empty and threadbare tyres
Bumping that road, all cobbles and tar
Shaking all the sweeties in my Rattlesnake Jar
Wake me up, shake me up
Take another jigger from the poisoned cup
I know when it’s time to hit that fix
Cause you can't raise a stack without firing the bricks
Pain in my head - buzzing like a hive
Powders and jelly-beans keeping me alive
Take some of these, take some of those
It takes a lot of stuff to keep me on my toes
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