Moonshine Medicine

[Verse 1]

I ain’t lookin’ around for no doctor’s hand,

Got my midnight cure in a mason jar band.

Out where the holler keeps secrets hid,

We make our prayers in a copper still lid.

[Verse 2]

The law don’t come where the firelight glows,

Just backroads healing that nobody knows.

One sip burns, two sips set you free,

That backwoods tonic works fine for me.

[Pre-Chorus]

Is it poison, or is it a prayer

Is it killing me slow, or keeping me there

[Chorus]

Moonshine medicine, cuts to the core,

Lightning in a bottle, devil at the door.

It heals like a sinner, but asks for more,

Every sip’s a secret, every swallow’s war.

Moonshine medicine—the cure they outlawed,

And I keep coming back for more.

[Verse 3]

Sheriff came ridin’ with the law in his eyes,

Said “that shine’ll kill ya, boy, it’s all just lies.”

But he took one sip when the night grew cold,

Now his secrets are buried in the mountain’s hold.

[Verse 4]

Mama warned me, “Son, that fire will burn,

Every cure you swallow takes its turn.

But men like us don’t pray to the sky,

We find our gospel in the sparks that fly.”

[Verse 5]

There’s blood on the barrels and smoke in the pine,

A thousand men gone chasing that shine.

But I keep the recipe locked in my head,

It’s the book of the living and the word of the dead.

[Pre-Chorus]

Is it healing the hurt, or making it worse

Is the bottle a blessing, or just a curse

[Chorus]

Moonshine medicine, cuts to the core,

Lightning in a bottle, devil at the door.

It heals like a sinner, but asks for more,

Every sip’s a secret, every swallow’s war.

Moonshine medicine—the cure they outlawed,

And I keep coming back for more.

[Verse 6]

Some drink for sorrow, some drink for sin,

Some drink to silence the war within.

Me, I drink ‘cause it’s all I know,

Moonshine medicine keeps me whole.

[Verse 7]

I’ve seen preachers stumble, I’ve seen good men fall,

They all come knocking when the nightbird calls.

No church, no doctor could heal their skin,

But they found their cure in my medicine.

[Verse 8]

Now my son stands guard where the fire still glows,

Learning the secrets that a family knows.

One day he’ll carry what the law can’t win,

The legacy’s written in moonshine medicine.

[Pre-Chorus]

Do I drink to forget, or drink to recall

Does the fire inside me save me at all

[Chorus]

Moonshine medicine, cuts to the core,

Lightning in a bottle, devil at the door.

It heals like a sinner, but asks for more,

Every sip’s a secret, every swallow’s war.

Moonshine medicine—the cure they outlawed,

And I keep coming back for more.

[Bridge]

Granddaddy’s ghost still guards the flame,

Says “truth and trouble always taste the same.”

I drink to the pain, I drink to the sin,

I drink to the cure called moonshine medicine.

[Verse 9]

The law wrote my name on a wanted page,

But the shine outlives every badge and cage.

They’ll bury my bones by the old still fire,

But the smoke keeps rising, climbing higher.

[Verse 10]

One day they’ll whisper when the night runs long,

‘Bout the cure in the jar and the rebel’s song.

I’ll live forever where the shadows bend,

Moonshine medicine—my outlaw’s end.

[Pre-Chorus]

Is this spirit my savior or just my chain

Does it numb the sorrow or fuel the pain

[Chorus]

Moonshine medicine, cuts to the core,

Lightning in a bottle, devil at the door.

It heals like a sinner, but asks for more,

Every sip’s a secret, every swallow’s war.

Moonshine medicine—the cure they outlawed,

And I keep coming back for more.