snakespit Lyrics

Windpipe coiled, splitting foil

Silver scales, shiver, recoil

Breathing laboured, venom, sulphur

Walls grow thicker, breathing water

Side-eyes, beaded, glued to this surface

Scent keeps bleeding, fear and earth

Polluted wound of rooted dirt

I lay, corroded, worms keep feeding

Climb, climb

Scratch at peeling

Sky

Hand over fist

Head over heels

Moonrise

Pull on the horns

Palm-skin peeling

Snared in time

No way to turn

But deeper inside

The vial it wrenches

Strengthen the knife

I never thought this medicine

Would be my end

Serpent circling round the syringe

Its sweet edge

Viscous sugar as the salve

For a beating heart

Infection growing hot

Tempered in the freezing dark

What's in front of me

I will away in seething eyes

Going blind as i

Eat the light

For grip-ping vines

Someone before me

Someone in store

Stealing the torch

I never thought a snake