Medicine
Album Version Appears On Goldfly guster.net Tablature
Live "Hott Lixx" Version Appears On Live in Knoxville 9/4/03
Lyrics
Ryan Miller
Music
Guster
Producer
Steve Lindsey
Mixing (album)
David Schiffman
Mixing (Live in Knox.)
Adam Gardner
Gordon Reddy

 Album Version Sessionography
Adam Gardner backing vocals, guitar
Ryan Miller guitar, lead vocals
Brian Rosenworcel percussion

 Album Version Guests
Rudy DiCello cello
Davey Faragher bass guitar
John Ferraro drums
Andy Happel violin
Steve Lindsey hammond organ

 Live in Knoxville 9/4/03 "Hott Lixx" Version Sessionography
Adam Gardner backing vocals, guitar
Ryan Miller bass guitar, lead vocals
Joe Pisapia backing vocals, guitar
Brian Rosenworcel drums

Notes: Originally, when Guster played Medicine live, it was in the Medicine 2000 form. That version contains a lot of musical changes; for example, much more emphasis is placed on the bongo. It is a much tighter version of the song than is found on Goldfly. During the Spring 2003 tour when Joe Pisapia was touring with the band, however, a different live version was introduced. This "Hott Lixx" version features a lot of what Ryan Miller describes as "Joe Pisapia on the cheesy electric guitar" and many lyrical cuts.
Album Version Live "Medicine 2000" Version Live "Hott Lixx" Version
Live Version (listen to a VBR mp3)
Into the maze
Enter the medicine handed down
Within these veins
Bleeding with apathy till it drowns

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

Is this mood frightening?
And who are you sometimes?
Don't try and rescue me
Go save someone else
I'm far too gone

Into the maze
Enter the medicine handed down
Within these veins
Bleeding with apathy till it drowns
No more to gain
Needing the ugliness that surrounds
Return again
Caught in the medicine handed down

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

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

Into the maze
Enter the medicine handed down
Within these veins
Bleeding with apathy till it drowns
No more to gain
Needing the ugliness that surrounds
Return again
Caught in the medicine handed down

Into the maze
Enter the medicine handed down
Within these veins
Bleeding with apathy till it drowns

Oh
I'm all alone
Go on hero
You're faking no one
Not today

Into the maze
Enter the medicine handed down
Within these veins
Bleeding with apathy till it drowns

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

Is this mood frightening?
And who are you sometimes?
Don't try and rescue me
Go save someone else
I'm way past gone

Into the maze
Enter the medicine handed down
Within these veins
Bleeding with apathy till it drowns

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

Into the maze
Enter the medicine handed down
Within these veins
Bleeding with apathy till it drowns
No more to gain
Needing the ugliness that surrounds
Return again
Caught in the medicine handed down

Oh
I'm all alone
Go on hero
You're faking no one
Not today

Into the maze
Enter the medicine handed down
Within these veins
Bleeding with apathy till it drowns

Into the maze
Enter the medicine handed down
Within these veins
Bleeding with apathy till it drowns

Gasping calling
I saw
I'm all alone
Grasping crawling
Is this not what you had planned?

Oh
You're all alone
Go on hero
You're faking no one
Not today

Into the maze
Enter the medicine handed down
Within these veins
Bleeding with apathy till it drowns

Oh
I'm all alone
Go on hero
You're faking no one
Not today