Lyrics
Snake in the grass
Hunched there in the corner,
with a mystified expression,
struck by seduction,
she picked up the snake in the grass.
Eyes that promise heaven,
studded jewels of illusion,
sparkling the prospect of hope.
The thinker and the drifter,
the lover and betrayer ,
wrapped up into a myriad of one.
A protector and invader,
predatorily foreboding,
of the rumors and the shadows yet to come.
The snake in the grass,
the snake in the grass,
Sneak aways and furtive calls,
- an in-between existence,
with bliss only one call away.
A better place than as before,
with open hearts and dreams of more,
and lying when questioned,
relenting to be led astray.
The soulmate and the user,
her best friend another loser,
and her wish becomes a nightmare over time.
A coward and a player,
hedonistic, ruthless raider,
turns her love for him into her only crime.
Exchanging kiss of life while otherwise existing,
stolen moments on the edge of each goodbye,
suspicious minds and well-placed common sense resisting,
the future once sought now can only make her cry,
laying in waiting, cunning and baiting,
the snake in the grass,
the snake in the grass,
betraying, placating, stalking and preying,
the snake in the grass,
the snake in the grass,
and all the alarm bells drowned out,
by the poison of old ghosts long past.
The snake in the grass,
the snake in the grass,
Slow Section:
Where nothings like it used to be,
with faithful hearts in absentee.
And that she fell, that is on me
says none of you and all of me,
But while you seek the answers in you, see
That snake there in the grass, it was me.
Strip the gloss of the shiny marquee,
That old snake in the grass, it was me.
I was supposed to be your rescue
And instead became your curse.
I was to give you love and freedom
Instead I only made it worse.
Two years she fought to bring me back,
Two years to mend a gaping crack,
And one day in July shed come to see,
To safe herself, let go of me.
The snake in the grass was me.
The snake in the grass was me.
The snake in the grass.
