Demonic Possession Zoloft Tales Facing Up Drive By Truckers

Demonic Possession Album: Gangstabilly (1998)
Zoloft Album: Pizza Deliverance (1999)
Tales Facing Up
by Drive By Truckers

Gangstabilly is the debut album of the Drive-By Truckers. The album was recorded "live in the studio" over the course of two days and was produced by Andy Baker and Andy LeMaster. The album's cover art was created by Jim Stacy. The album was re-released on January 25, 2005 by New West Records along with the band's second studio effort, Pizza Deliverance.

On the band's website, bandmember Patterson Hood says that "[Gangstabilly is] the most country of any of our albums." He goes on to admit that the record is "not our best album, but lots of fun and more than a little hint of the better things to come." Hood has consistently stated that the song "The Living Bubba" is the best song he has ever written.

Hood wrote "Demonic Possession" while watching Pat Buchanan's televised speech at the 1996 Republican National Convention.

All my family problems disappeared overnight. We're all taking Zoloft and everything is fine.

Tears are for pussies...

Demonic Possession

Demonic Possession
His court's in session
I sign my confession
Demonic Possession

It was raining on the day she told me
Them things that fella sold me
Mama wasn't there to scold me
No prison or cell could hold me
I still recall the date
This promise that I made
When I sealed my fate
You honor I rightly state

Suddenly I had a foot hold
I became such a butthole
I don't need nobody consoling me
No one but the devil controlling me

I can kick ass and talk backward
I hang out with a whole bunch of slackers
And I know I can get some help from him
I listen to a lot of Led Zeppelin

I got so much money I don't need smarts
My records are flying to the top of the charts
And I'm eating in all those fancy restaurants
And Hanging out with Sam Phillips
And I owe it all to him
Oh, the shape I'm in
The devil says the only thing that's buggin him
Is Hell's filling up with Republicans

Zoloft

All my family problems disappeared overnight
We're all taking Zoloft and everything is fine
My sister's teen angst just flew out the window
Mama's so happy she laughs all the time
It used to trouble gettin' along with each other
Then the family doctor gave us all these little pills
Now I can't believe how great we all feel
Mama hated daddy, I hated little brother
We're all taking Zoloft and everything is fine

All my family problems disappeared overnight
Mama's so happy she laughs all the time
My sister's teen angst just flew out the window
The birds in the trees all sing happy songs
Everyone is smiling, we're so glad to be alive
Even my ol' pitbull don't growl anymore
He just watches that ol' tail wag from side to side

All my family problems disappeared overnight
We're all taking Zoloft and everything is fine
My sister's teen angst just flew out the window
Now I used to be so unhappy doin' songs about killing
Mama's so happy she laughs all the time
Taking methadone and jacking off four or five times a day
Now I'm so happy... I'm so gaddamn happy!
Who needs an orgasm when life's so f**king great?

All my family problems disappeared overnight
Mama's so happy she cries all the time
We're all taking Zoloft and everything is fine
My sister's teen angst just flew out the window

Tales Facing Up

Me and my brother's old lady went out and got stinking
She solved her curiosities about me by the railroad tracks
She said I reminded her of him before he started drinking
And banging the babysitter every time she turned her back

We opened up the sunroof and smoked a big ole joint
And drank a case of Pabst Blue Ribbon listening to the crickets and trains
And every so often she'd lapse into narcotic ramblings

Moon and mascara
I've always been a holy terror
Temptations lurking everywhere
If your mind's in the gutter, beware
You'll find me there

Me and a friend were talking after the funeral
She said it should have been me but I'm still around and I been so wild
I'm surprised I made it to the seventh grade
And all my dead friends have settled down

My eyes were puffy and she asked if I'd been crying
I said, "Tears are for pussies" but who was I kidding

So we stopped at the bar and drank them dry
Beer and tequila
I've always been a thrill seeker
But thrills are a dime a dozen these days
And I found a dime in the gutter today
Tails facing up
Still fucking up
Still fucking up

A funny thing happened on my way to a strange way of thinking