Summer Of Drugs

My sister got bit by a copperhead snake

In the woods behind the house

Nobody was home so I grabbed her foot

And I sucked that poison out



My sister got better in a month or two

When the swelling it went down

But I'd started off my teenage years with a poison in my mouth



And we were too young to be hippies

Missed out on the love

Turned to a teen in the late 70's

In the summer of the drugs



Mama and daddy could never understand, their life was never dull

Their idea of a rollicking time was a kitchen tap appall

Acid grass downs and speed, junk those days were made of

How could they suspect those kids where the monsters meet their makers



Mommies and daddies were too shy to talk about those birds and bees

Integrated schools had stopped the facts of life were these

Girls and boys went away and came back, empty after the weekend

The talk on the phone consisted of hushed voices speaking



Boys and girls in every town

Sand man spread his sand around

Now we are just waking up

From a summer of drugs