Girl, You Have No Faith in Medicine Lyrics
This song to me is pretty obviously about the placebo effect. Sometimes the ability to get better, to be well, is in your mind, but you think you need something to help the process. It's all in this girl to be well, and while she's refusing to take her 'medicine' and being miserable, the answer's right there.
This was a jingle written to sell Alieve. Jack, the seller, is talking to girl, who is the consumer, about the benefits of acetaminophen. There is a disclaimer about a possible allergic reaction to actetaminphen in the song (this is very rare and was not found over the course of studies on several random groupings). The FDA needs to require that possible side effects of the medication, including headache, dry mouth, and sexual dysfunction, be included at the end of the song.
I agree with Lilybart...totally.
this song is so sarcastic, i love it
i think this song is about the 'bad' kind of drugs, and how people have a ridiculous aversion to them yet readily take their acetaminophen [the most common analgesic in america]. 'Is the problem you're allergic / To a well familiar name? / Do you have a problem with this one / If the results are the same?' people are alright with something called acetaminophen, but not something like cocaine [a well familiar name].
I love the paart of the song after he says, "rattle down the street", and it seems like he's gonna say something else, but he doesn't.
I agree with lilybart.
And the rest of you, this is songmeanings, not song-this-song-has-a-good-guitar-solo.
drugs.
lmao this song is perfect!
1st name- YES! that bit when you think he's going to say something but doesn't is total genius.
i think jack is poking fun at this girl. every adolescent at some point has had this attitude, "no one can possibly understand me. no one has ever felt the way i do. no one or nothing can help me now." this girl is just going through that stage. she refuses to take her "medicine" because she's convinced herself that she's without hope but jack mocks that she's merely "allergic to a well familiar name." it's not that she can't be helped, its that she doesn't want to be helped because that will make her just like all of the other pill poppers out there.
even though the subject of this song is the girl, jack also mocks modern medicine. there are drugs for everything and merely "the name upon the bottle" will determine what it can do for you.
i agree with lillybart--the line "give me sugar pill and watch me just rattle" is definitely in reference to the placebo effect.
so much sarcasm. gotta love it.