Kristin Hersh Snake Oil Lyrics

Snake Oil Lyrics

Well I never

I never saw

Anybody move like that before

Why do
we spend so much time 

Here on the floor

Looking up like I did
before

Youre intoxicating movement ate away

At my sad eyes and my
headache



I never 

I never thought

Id be falling Id be
caught

I see a bone and a straw in the dirt

White and if by the
light 

I squint against his shirt

My sleeping pills melted 

And I sleep fine



The tears on my shoulder 

Wont keep me
up tonight

The snake around my finger 

Starts to unwind



Soak up the weather

Suck up the sun

Into your bones

Then
move on



I see a snake and a girl in the snow

White and if by
the light

I feel the itch to go

The tears on my shoulder

Freeze then boil

I wouldnt be here

If not for your snake oil