Granville Automatic - Blood Medicine Lyrics

In the late 19th century, the Merchants House downtown housed a wholesale drug company on the third floor. This company created a very popular half-opium, half-alcohol concoction known as “blood medicine”. Across town at 51st and Charlotte Avenues in Sylvan Park, an antebellum home known as the Boyd-Douglas Mansion was sold by the daughters that inherited it. It became a home for opium addicts, later purchased by Saint Ann Catholic Church, who tore it down.

I used to think that I could save you if I tried
if I looked between the spaces in your favorite lies
you don’t believe in any way to get out of this night
break my heart a thousand times until you get it right
an old gold ring don’t mean a thing with your

Head to the west and your feet back home you dream of opium
called by the name of your only son alone and lost in love
long gone for alcohol you hold the letters close
draw the lines that we both find between the sky and the Holy Ghost

After the gold faded away
and the cotton fields disappeared along the new roadway
you told me about the horses you would ride through Queen Anne’s lace
holding on for dear life until the summer danced away
a laudanum high is a good goodbye

Head to the west and your feet back home you dream of opium
called by the name of your only son alone and lost in love
long gone for alcohol you hold the letters close
draw the lines we both find between the sky and the Holy Ghost

They say you’ll never be the same they just told me to pray
to the Lord until he sees you there with your

Head to the west and your feet back home you dream of opium
called by the name of your only son alone and lost in love
long gone for alcohol you hold the letters close
draw the lines we both find between the sky and the Holy Ghost