This is so familiar!

THE VIPER

you wake up your smile is strange

crooked with sugar coated pain

your tongue is stained with the name

the purple blood of The Viper

you fall out of bed and down your stairs

your kitchen is ice blue sharp and bare

one bowl of scorpions and scarlet hair

your breakfast with The Viper

so you click your big screen TV on

but your pretty panorama’s gone

just one scene throbbing on and on

those green cruel eyes of The Viper

so you put a shotgun in your mouth

but you can’t pull that trigger now

your hands are dealing for the house

you’re working for The Viper

and you smoke a pipe and you snort a line

that sultan’s stash he left behind

you’ve been an addict all your life

now you’re higher than The Viper

you walk out into your backyard

the lawn’s all tragic black and charred

burned flat and hard, your calling card

from your visit with The Viper

so you climb into your S.U.V.

you drive downtown to pay your fee

your spine still twists with ecstacy

now you’ve mated with The Viper

your life’s one sugar coated failure

but what a tale you have to tell

your brain’s still crashing with the bells

from your wedding with The Viper

now your soul is old and grey

how many lifetimes will you pay

raw meat is all you crave today

you’re hungry as The Viper

Lyrics and music by Daniel Hutchens

© ℗ 2009

Published by Wet Trombone Music BMI