The Roches - The Snake lyrics

THE SNAKE

If you move into my life and take over my soul

Charm all my friends and play the rescuer role

Let me quit my job to go on your dole

And make your approval my ultimate goal,

I will begin to shrink back into the corner of my own skin

Until I?m so small and pink that no one would see me

Even if they got in -

Your enormous index finger would be probing to find me

As I darted between the walls of my own personality

Which would be changing as I left most of it behind me

Disappearing into a new reality...

And when you tried to trot me out to show me to your friends

They?d say what girlfriend? we don?t see any girlfriend.

As you open the door of your mercedes benz

Now you got the oyster you don?t need the pearl when

You can have my beautiful smile

That wonderfully elegant style

All my show business connections

Both of my cats affections

The clothes you bought me are yours

That timex watch endures

My good relationship with your mom

My ability to remain calm,

But here I?d be like a dead person looking down

On the cemetery where they placed a stone

With a name on it like jane smith or john brown

That I no longer recognized as my own

Hold me tight and I?ll just shed my skin, slither away,

No matter what?s happenin?.