You're guilty of crime in the first degree,
|
Second and third as well.
|
My jury finds you'll be serving your time
|
When you go straight to hell.
|
|
'Cause he was Lord of the Lightning,
|
Though "socially fright'ning",
|
But never out to sell.
|
|
Their nickels and pence
|
Meant more than did sense,
|
And not the sensible thing.
|
|
Nor did the man outta time, man outta time.
|
Thought you was crazy. You was one of a kind.
|
Man outta time, man outta time.
|
All along, world was wrong. You was right.
|
|
All that he saw, all he conceived,
|
They just could not believe.
|
Steinmetz and Twain were friends that remained,
|
Along with number three.
|
He was electromagnetic, completely kinetic,
|
"New Wizard of the West."
|
But they swindled and whined that he wasn't our kind,
|
And said Edison knew best.
|
|
He was the man outta time, man outta time.
|
Thought you was crazy. You was one of a kind.
|
Man outta time, man outta time.
|
Said you was outta your mind!
|
|
You took a shot and it did you in.
|
Edison's medicine.
|
You played your cards, but you couldn't win.
|
Edison's medicine.
|
|
I spent twelve years of hard time,
|
More like the best years of my life.
|
Never heard or read a single word
|
About "the man" and his "wicked mind."
|
They'll sell you on Marconi.
|
Familiar, but a phony.
|
Story goes they sold their souls
|
And swore that you'd never know...
|
|
About the man outta time, man outta time.
|
Thought you was crazy. You was one of a kind.
|
Man outta time, man outta time.
|
Swore you was outta your mind!
|
|
You took a shot and it did you in.
|
Edison's medicine.
|
You played your cards, but you couldn't win.
|
Edison's medicine.
|
|
-----------------
|
Edison's Medicine
|
| Tesla |
