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You used to have anxiety
till you found the perfect remedy
you've got that bottle you adore
life no longer such a bore
poppin, poppin' pills at night
poppin', poppin' pills at night
takes a pharmacy to feel alright
poppin' poppin' pills at night

poppin' poppin' pills
changin' changin' how you feel

Benzodiazapene
floats you into a dream
can't remember what you said
waking up in some strange bed
poppin' poppin' pills at night
takes a pharmacy to feel right

Poppin' poppin' pills
changin' changin' how you feel

Too much hydrocodene
affecting you something mean
your skin is starting to sweat
your spine feels so wet
poppin' poppin' pills at night
100 milligrams right?

Poppin' poppin' pills
changin' changin' how you feel

I'm gonna tell a tale of two Pumpernickels. There's Johnny Pumpernickel, Johnny Pumpernickel started with pills at night, and ended up taking pills in the morning. Johnny's Mama Linda started with pills in the morning and ended up with pills at night.

Johnny likes to go out and party on the weekends. Johnny is an all A honor student, his parents aren't worried about a thing he does. But now, Johnny has encountered a lil' thing we like call oxycontin, it make him float. He forgets about the pimples on his face. He feels ten feet tall. But Johnny started slipping a lil', his grades fell to C's. Johnny's parents sent him to counselor. Johnny couldn't tell the man about the oxycontin' so the counselor put him on adderol. Now Johnny takes his pills in the morning to get to his pills at night.

Johnny's Mama Linda found those aderols. She found they could feel all the holes deep in her soul. Her husband no longer seemed so boring. Her daughter no longer seemed so fat. Her friends no longer seemed so judgmental or at least she didn't give a fuck. So Linda gets jittery around 11 in the morning when her stories come on, she can't sit still throughout the whole story. Come 5 she is in a daze cooking look a champion wielding her kitchen cutlery. Come ten o' clock at night, when her husband goes to touch her thigh, and she's still awake and can't take him touching her thigh. She starts to take valium. Linda is doing a lil' thing we like to call

Poppin Poppin' Pills at night
Poppin' pill just to feel alright
Poppin' poppin' pills
changin' changin' how she feels

What comes through in the night
Always comes through in the light
The Lord said do my work
The Lord said do my work

Pharmaceuticals, Hallelujah!
Pharmaceuticals, Hallelujah!
In the suburbs,
In the church,
In the streets,
In the home
Pharmaceuticals, Hallelujah!
Pharmaceuticals, Hallelujah!

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from Citizen Clay, released February 1, 2014

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"Clay Otis & The Showbiz Lights (Pop)- A Showbiz Lights show is a genre-bending walk through the history of pop seen through the tormented, girl crazy mind of Clay Otis Hardee. Backed by members of Tiger High, Dream Team, and The Bulletproof Vests."
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