Edison's Medicine

You're guilty of crime in the first degree, second and third as well. My jury finds you'll be serving your time when you go straight to Hell. Cause he was Lord of the Lightning though "socially frightening" But never out to sell. Their nickels and pence made more than did sense. And not the sensible thing. Nor did the man out of time, man out of time Thought you was crazy, you was one of a kind Man out of time, man out of time All along the world was wrong, you was right All that he saw, all he conceived They just could not believe Steinmetz and Twain were friends that remained Along with number three. He was electromagnetic, completely kinetic "New Wizard of the West!" But they swindled and whined that he wasn't our kind And said Edison knew best He was the man out of time, man out of time Thought you was crazy, you was one of a kind Man out of time, man out of time Said you was out of your mind You took a shot and it did you in Edison's Medicine You played your cards but you couldn't win Edison's Medicine I spent twelve years of hard time More like the best years of my life Never heard or read a single word About "the man" and his "wicked mind" They'll sell you on Marconi, familiar but a phony Story goes they sold their souls And swore that you'd never know About the man out of time, man out of time Thought you was crazy, you was one of a kind Man out of time, man out of time Swore you was out of your mind You took a shot and it did you in Edison's medicine You played your cards but you couldn't win Edison's medicine You took a shot and it did you in Edison's medicine You played your cards but you couldn't win Edison's medicine Thomas A.