Snake Oil

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

Your intoxicating movement ate away

At my sad eyes and my headache

I never

I never thought

I'd be falling I'd 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

Won't 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 wouldn't be here

If not for your snake oil