I was born on Snake Hill and that's where I'll probably die

'Cause I don't like to kill but I've got poison in my bite

Well, I feel safe to say

That I should probably stay upon Snake Hill My mother told me son you've got strychnine in your blood

It comes from pedigree ancestry

She warned me not to leave, said my conscience was too deep

That when I bite it would hurt mostly me For many, many years well I stayed up on that hill

Occasionally I'd go down to the edge

Just to see what I could see

Soon curiosity got the best of me And it's a big world and it's not fair to me

To have to stay up when there's so much to see

I wanna play with others that I need to meet

The poison will be poison till it's through Soon I hit the world I discovered that a girl

Was what my mother tried to hide from me

She could make you feel alive, she could make you wanna die

And that's exactly what she did to me And it was only self-defense and I coiled up and I bit

I let my venom run into her veins and I sat and watched her die to me Then I realized I was born on Snake Hill and that's where I'll probably die

'Cause I don't like to kill but I've got poison in my bite

Well, I feel safe to say

That I should probably stay upon Snake Hill And it's a big world and it's not fair to me

To have to stay when there's so much to see

I wanna play with others that I need to meet

And poison will be poison till it's through Poison will be poison till it's through

Poison will be poison till it's through

Poison will be poison till it's through