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Artist/Band: Robyn Hitchcock
Lyrics for Song: Serpent at the Gates of Wisdom
Lyrics for Album: Respect [1993]



Serpent at the gates of wisdom

Curling round a tree

WIth your eyes so dark and empty

Looking straight through me

How did you get so unwinding?

Do you know my sins?

When you're so close to the answer

Why don't you go in?



Serpent at the gates of wisdom

Who did you deceive?

She was weak, but that's no reason

For what you did to Eve

You're a fool -- you broke the stillness

She gave birth to desire

Rolling down the frozen highway

Like a burning tyre



Serpent at the gates of wisdom

Where do you belong?

Wisdom cannot be transmitted

It keeps you hanging on

Do you really serve the Devil

If it's all God's plan?

Good and evil need each other

Honey I'm your man



Serpent at the gates of wisdom

Like a purple scar

Leering at me round the dashboard

As I reach my car

I close the door, I start the engine

And I will take control

God above, and all his angels, have mercy on your soul


Album Lyrics: Respect [1993]


Robyn Hitchcock
"Respect [1993]"


1. The Moon Inside
2. When I Was Dead
3. The Wreck of the Arthur Lee
4. Serpent at the Gates of Wisdom
5. Then You're Dust