Name: A Cure for Every Ailment
Duration: P00H02M50S
Description: I recorded this song in the same week as When the Calendar Comes Down, two of the songs I'm most pleased with. It's about fixing things temporarily.

A Cure for Every Ailment

from Other Short Stories and Better Works of Fiction by Captain Polaroid

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I recorded this song in the same week as When the Calendar Comes Down, two of the songs I'm most pleased with. It's about fixing things temporarily.

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My eyes become a camera when you sleep to record every moment of everything you don't get to see. I'll play it in the morning to prove that you're still breathing. A cure for every ailment is all you need. The doctors cannot save you, they'll just delay your death. They'll feed you pills and medical bills until you choke on all your debt. You write on my arm a short a simple speech... "a cure for every ailment is all we need". They don't give us reasons anymore, 'cause now they're gonna teach us that freedom is not for all. I'm caught in the middle of a war fueled by greed so I dig for oil underneath my feet.

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from Other Short Stories and Better Works of Fiction, released February 19, 2007

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My fuzzy, shambolic lo-fi pop is thrown carelessly out of a bedroom window in Birmingham, UK.

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