Medicine for Melancholy

"Medicine For Melancholy" (formerly titled "Friday Feeling") is a single by Rivers Cuomo.
===Appearances===
*"Medicine for Melancholy" (digital single, 2018)
*Alone XIII: The Pacific Daydream Black Years (2021)
==Overview==
Cuomo announced the song via Instagram@rivers_cuomo Instagram. 15 March 2018. https://www.instagram.com/p/BgWoFi5HA-L/ on March 15, 2018. The song was produced in Ableton by the band AJR, who had recently featured Cuomo on one of their songs, "Sober Up." The song is not part of any larger project. Cuomo said in 2017 of the Alone albums, "It’s kind of embarrassing. If you search for my name on Spotify, that’s what comes up. I should put out something more pro also so people don’t think that’s all I do."Eloise, Marianne. "Rivers Cuomo on dark thoughts, Post Malone & being prolific" Dazed 27 October 2017. https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/37880/1/rivers-cuomo-on-dark-thoughts-post-malone-being-prolific The song was also released around the time of Cuomo’s brief solo acoustic tour, during which he performed the song at every show.
Demos of "Medicine for Melancholy" (under the prior title of "Friday Feeling") were released in 2021 as part of the digital compilation Alone XIII: The Pacific Daydream Black Years.
==Audio==
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==Personnel==
*Rivers Cuomo – guitar, lead vocals, piano, percussion, backing vocals
==Lyrics==
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|-|Medicine for Melancholy=
Dum-dee-dee-dee-dee
Dum-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dum
Dum-dee-dee-dee-dee
Dum-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dum
Shut me off, put me in a dream
I don’t wanna think
Life is pain, puzzles make me hurt
I want to go extinct
No reason for me to struggle
Just be there when I wake up
You’re my medicine for melancholy
Let me take you in
You’re my medicine for melancholy
Ooh-ooh
We got that Friday feeling
We got that Friday feeling
Can I hang out with you for a bit?
You’re my medicine for melancholy
Ooh-ooh
I wanna take you in
Dum-dee-dee-dee-dee
Dum-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dum
Dum-dee-dee-dee-dee
Dum-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dum
Recently, I’ve been sleeping well
I think I might be healed
Shooting stars, I can feel you near
Are you even real?
No reason for me to struggle
Just be there when I wake up
You’re my medicine for melancholy
Let me take you in
You’re my medicine for melancholy
Ooh-ooh
We got that Friday feeling
We got that Friday feeling
Can I hang out with you for a bit?
You’re my medicine for melancholy
Ooh-ooh
I wanna take you in
Dum-dee-dee-dee-dee
Dum-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dum
Dum-dee-dee-dee-dee
Dum-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dum
No reason for me to struggle
My life is better with you
You’re my medicine for melancholy
Let me take you in
You’re my medicine for melancholy
Ooh-ooh
We got that Friday feeling
We got that Friday feeling
Can I hang out with you for a bit?
You’re my medicine for melancholy
Ooh-ooh
I wanna take you in
Dum-dee-dee-dee-dee
Dum-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dum
Dum-dee-dee-dee-dee
Dum-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dum
I wanna take you in
|-|Friday Feeling (ver. 17)=
Dum-dee-dee-dee-dee
Dum-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dum
Dum-dee-dee-dee-dee
Dum-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dum
Hey, man, you gotta do what you gotta do
On the edge of a cliff in Malibu
Pull yourself together and face the facts
How many times do I have to kiss their ass?
I'm a micronaut in a Lego world
I don't get the recognition I deserve
Give me shiny things to stop my tears
I'm so tired I just wanna disappear
Dum-dee-dee-dee-dee (Aw, fuck it)
Dum-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dum (It's a Friday)
Dum-dee-dee-dee-dee (I could forget all about this shit)
Dum-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dum (Gonna let my hair down)
I got that Friday feeling
I got that Friday feeling
Oh yeah
I got that Friday feeling
I got that Friday feeling
Oh yeah
I'm a voice in the wilderness these days
Sad to be the lion on display
Larry King's producers on line three
Slap me and I'll turn the other cheek
I scream myself into a padded cell
I've spent my whole life turning from myself
Feel like I'm living in Groundhog Day
Wouldn't it suck if the plane went down today?
Dum-dee-dee-dee-dee (We got plenty of time)
Dum-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dum (to worry about things next week)
Dum-dee-dee-dee-dee (I'm-a rise to the occasion, dawg)
Dum-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dum (Get busy. Hammer time)
I got that Friday feeling
I got that Friday feeling
Oh yeah
I got that Friday feeling
I got that Friday feeling
Oh yeah
You're my medicine for melancholy
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==Known recordings==
==See also==
*List of Rivers Cuomo songs
==References==
Category: Rivers Cuomo songs
Category:2018 releases