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 frightening

But never out to sell



But the 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

New wizard of the west

But they sniveled and whined and he wasn't our kind

And said Edison knew best



He was a 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



Check it out, 

I spent twelve years of hard time

More like the best years of my life

Never heard or read one 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



You took a shot and it did you in

Edison's medicine

You played your cards, but you couldn't win

Edison's 

Medicine