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Track: Medication
Artist: Damien Jurado
Album: Ghost Of David

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Name: Damien Jurado
Spotify Genres: indie folk
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American indie/folk singer/songwriter and guitarist. His solo career began during the mid-1990s, releasing lo-fi folk based recordings on his own cassette-only label, [l188419]. Gaining a local cult following in Seattle, he was brought to the attention of Sub Pop Records by Sunny Day Real Estate singer [a=Jeremy Enigk]. His musical career is marked by periods of close collaboration with various musicians. - Until about "I break chairs" his work was closely linked to [a=Pedro The Lion] and [a=David Bazan]. - From then until "Caught In The Trees", [a=Eric Fischer] became his companion as a musician and producer, forming the band "Damien Jurado" with Fisher and [a=Jenna Conrad] on "Now That I'm In Your Shadow" and "Caught In The Trees". - The most significant change in sound came when he met the late [a=Richard Swift (2)], with whom he collaborated from "St. Bartlett" to "Visions Of Us On The Land." - From "The Horizon Just Laughed" to "Sometimes You Hurt The Ones You Hate", [a=Josh Gordon] has been his new musical partner. - Since ‘Motorcylce Madness’, his work has been closely associated with musician/producer [a=Sean Walcott] and a changing line-up of musicians, most notably [a=Lacey Brown (2)] and other musicians from Walcott's circle. In 2024, this resulted in a short-lived backing band called ‘[a=The Everett Assembly]’. - In the summer of 2024, he co-founded [l3853108], a mobile recording studio, with [a=Lacey Brown (2)]. Since then, he co-produces and arranges his songs with her. Other frequent contributors were the members of [a=Gathered In Song], [a=Rosie Thomas] and [a387255]. His full-length albums have been released on [l77343], [l35538], [l44370] and [l363414]. In 2021 he founded [l=Maraqopa Records]. From 2004 to 2007 he also co-ran [l77015].

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Release: Damien Jurado - Ghost Of David
Year: 2016
Genres: Rock
Styles: Folk Rock, Indie Rock

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LYRICS

It just so happens I have many conerns
My brother's down the road and my lover in town
They both need affection
And some kind of love
Well I'm the one who gives it at any given time
From two in the morning to six
Call me up and cry

My lover keeps it secret that we meet under covers
When asked by her man if we two are lovers
She says, "I hardly know him.
Besides, he's not my type."

Her man's a policeman with a keen sense of trouble
He's known just by danger
And all kinds of liars

Brother called this morning in a terrible panic
Spies in the closet, bugs in the attic
He screams bloody murder saying,
"We're all gonna die.

Death is upon me, I know 'cause he showed me
Pictures of graveyards and us underneath."

I'm losing my hearing from my brother screaming,
"They're coming to get me and
Someone call the police."

Two in the morning, the phone disconnected
Her man knows I'm calling, it's what I expected
A note on my backdoor saying, "Baby not tonight."

So I sit with my brother who is nursing a cut wrist
He's mumbling "Forgive me."
And "Don't let them take me away."

I can be a good boy and stay out of trouble
Jackie I love you and
Don't let them take your brother

Strapped to a table, go in electrodes
"Jackie come save me the doctors will kill me."
"No, they're here to help you
Straighten out your mind."

The TV is blaring with some preacher saying that
God is among us and he hears our cries

Lord, do me a favor
It's wrong but I ask you
Take my brother's life

'Cause he's sick of the suffering
The pills he's inhaling
The cross he is bearing
That is his trouble mind