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The Pharmacist

from The Dispensary Sentence by Johnny Setlist

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lyrics

I am not witchdoctor
For you're naked sins
I am not a bubble burster
For your new children

I am not a public figure
in which to confide
I am not to be on the jury
Or to be left untried

But in my domain of fruitless empathy
You'll develop a complex based on your dependency

Hoarded in, congested
Depressed and overestimated
The distress to be expected
With derelict confectionery
Extemporaneously compiled
To remain useless and vile
While you go the extra unnoticed mile

You'll have seen a million faces
Sent to be treated in other places
The eyes that were too young
For the law to see what's wrong
Where your ethics lose their poetic sense
Replaced with metric density

I am not a medley maker
Of your favourite songs
I am not the earworm
In your head when it's all gone wrong

I am not a philanthropist
Who's here to speculate
I am not an addict
Watching your failing mental state

But your feel the need to question what it is I know
You take one little tablet and suddenly you're George F. Archambault

Box to box and crate to crate
Year to date and end of day
Intervening much too late
To help the sorrow dissipate
Or just to help eradicate
That rash of shame or that twist of fate
You only now present with a belated sense of urgency

You'll be singled out for a single dose
One to kill, one to promote
For a life that need not live
Yet you insist on drugs to give
To the dying kind with mind decay
Watered down 'til they're washed away

Five year's training to go near and far
We don't need you here for what your are
Our people are healthy, dead, or slow
And you can only go where the money goes

Your language might help you but soon you will see
That patients are assholes in every country
They'll warp you and bleed you and leave you immune
To the reason that's led to you being marooned

I am a human and these are my days
Spare me five minutes to give me some praise
So I might hit target, so I might survive
By preparing your pills I stripped myself alive

If you listen to me and take my advice
I'll save you from becoming a habitual device
Yes, I need you're custom but dear God, can't you see?
Patient safety is my priority

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from The Dispensary Sentence, released March 23, 2015

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Johnny Setlist is musician of sorts. Sometimes he talks in the third person.

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