Songfacts®:

• With his band The Assassination, Reilly mixes a variety of musical styles and is known for his storytelling. Regarding this song, he told us: "This friend of mine had a wife that was always beating him down. She wanted more money, she wanted more things, she was really petty and spiteful. He was a great guy and he took her s--t for a long time. I always wanted him to find someone who would build him up and someone he could have a good time with and who understood that life is f--king short and that ya gotta be thankful for tender mercies. Anyway, the guy in the song finally sheds his old life and seeks refuge in a local band called the Reformed Church Of the Assault Rifle Band. The choruses are really sung, I guess, from the narrator's point of view and particularly the, 'Where's My Goddamn Medicine?' line which was a line from an outtake where I really was trying to find my medicine."
• Explaining how he creates his songs, Reilly writes: "My songwriting process is haphazard at best. I sometimes start with a chord progression on the guitar or the piano and then add some lyrical image and I grow it from there. After I work out a form and finish the lyrics, I record it acoustically. However, the process is never the same. Sometimes I'm in a hurry and I finish it quickly, and other times songs or ideas lay around for a long time. After I know the song well I will play it for the band and we work out parts, or I never play it for the band and they come in individually and play parts, or I have anyone that happens to be over play the parts... plumbers, bankers, real estate agents, tax assessors, landlords."