Gud Gud Medicine
Flu-haunted fever gospel: Doobert grinning through hell, Madeline and parquet crucifixion, then begging for good good medicine: drugs, love, or the song itself.
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ISRC TCADN1849870 (soundexchange)
Track seven on Finding $D, Luke solo. Every song on the LP was written, recorded, mixed, and mastered in a single day, and this is the one Luke tracked while sick with the flu. The title spelling Gud Gud against the chorus’s good good medicine sets the tone: typo as gospel.
It’s a call-and-response fever dream, Doobert shouts bookending verses of sacrilege played as vaudeville. Three-line jingles escalate from nude in a convent to nailed to parquet, domestic crucifixion on the floorboards with sin as the punchline. The Madeline bridge carries a convent-school echo (Ludwig Bemelmans’ Parisian girls, Catholic childhood) into relapse theology: my gods / are back again / falling. The gods return when you’re already on the way down.
What the chorus actually wants is the medicine, doubled and pun intact: NyQuil, affection, music, or all three on a flu day. By the extended outro of good good good good / hahaha / unh, the song is overdosing on its own hook. Same debut-lab energy as My Friend, Scoobert and What a Velma What a Night; leads into Theme for Himalayan Salt Lamp (instrumental) and Aaahh!!! Real Monsters (instrumental closer, the same cut as Next Time on Dragon Ball SD on $WAMI$).
Written, performed, mixed, and mastered by Luke Francis Walton.
Lyrics
Doobert Nude in a convent Big grin I'm going to hell Dance in the market Get thin Suit you real well Nailed to parquet What sin? We're going to hell Madeline I turned again Falling in your Holy heaven knows My gods Are back again Falling Need that Good good medicine Your your Your good good medicine Your your Your good good Good Ah hanh Doobert Drunk in the sick ward Good drugs I'm living so well Run from the landlords No hugs I'm wagging my tail Madeline I turned again Falling in your Holy heaven knows My gods Are back again Falling Need that Good good medicine Your your Your good good medicine Your your Your good good Good Madeline I turned again Falling in your Holy heaven knows My gods Are back again Falling Need that Good good medicine Good good Your Good good good good Your Good good good good Hahaha Your Unh