Brain Damage

I got brain damage

From takin’ those drugs

Brain damage from smokin’ those rugs

All I got to show for my time is

Just an empty head

I got mind slippage

My memory has flown

Mind drippage. My thinker’s been blown

All I got to show for my trouble is just what I said

Just a hollow head hangin’ on a pile

Of some bones and some blood and some water

If cancer ain’t far it’s a nuclear war

So tell me son what does it matter

I got toad livers from drinkin’ that booze

And road shivers from paying those dues

All I got to show for my time is just an achin’ head

I got dirty ways from livin’ that life

And thirty days for beatin’ my wife

All I got to show for my trouble is just an empty bed

And a hollow head hangin’ on a pile

Of some bones and some blood and some water

If cancer ain’t far it’s a nuclear war

So tell me son what does it matter

I got brain damage

From takin’ those drugs

Brain damage from smokin’ those rugs

All I got to show for my time is

Just an empty head

I got mind slippage

My memory has flown

Mind drippage. My thinker’s been blown

All I got to show for my trouble is just what I said

I got brain damage

From takin’ those drugs

Brain damage from smokin’ those rugs

All I got to show for my trouble

Is just what I said

Written by Michael Brewer
1975 Talking Beaver Music/BMI

Capitol Records released 1976