Roches - The Snake lyrics

rate me

If you move into my life and take over my soul<br />

Charm all my friends and play the rescuer role<br />

Let me quit my job to go on your dole<br />

And make your approval my ultimate goal,<br />

I will begin to shrink back into the corner of my own skin<br />

Until I'm so small and pink that no one would see me<br />

Even if they got in -<br />

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Your enormous index finger would be probing to find me<br />

As I darted between the walls of my own personality<br />

Which would be changing as I left most of it behind me<br />

Disappearing into a new reality...<br />

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And when you tried to trot me out to show me to your friends<br />

They'd say "What girlfriend? We don't see any girlfriend."<br />

As you open the door of your Mercedes Benz<br />

Now you got the oyster you don't need the pearl when<br />

You can have my beautiful smile<br />

That wonderfully elegant style<br />

All my show business connections<br />

Both of my cats affections<br />

The clothes you bought me are yours<br />

That Timex watch endures<br />

My good relationship with your mom<br />

My ability to remain calm,<br />

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But here I'd be like a dead person looking down<br />

On the cemetery where they placed a stone<br />

With a name on it like Jane Smith or John Brown<br />

That I no longer recognized as my own<br />

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Hold me tight and I'll just she'd my skin, slither away,<br />

No matter what's happenin'.