Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Soul Asylum
Canonical path: /soul-asylum/summer-of-drugs
Related lyric paths: 6
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Summer of Drugs
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Summer of Drugs
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Sister got bit by a copperhead snake in the woods behind the house
And nobody was home so I grabbed her foot and I sucked that poison out
Sister got better in a month or two when the swelling it went down
But I started off my teenage years with a poison in my mouth
Chorus:
And we were too young to be hippies missed out on love
Return to our teen in the late seventies in a summer of the drugs
Mommy and Daddy could never understand that life was never cold
Their idea of a rollicking town was a kitchen tap appall
Acid, grass, downs and speed, junked us days were made of
How could they suspect those kids where the monsters eat their makers
Chorus:
And they were too young to be hippies missed out on love
We learned from the teens of the late seventies in a
Summer of the drugs
Boys and girls in every town
Sandman spread his sand around
Now we are just waking up from a summer of drugs
Hey hey (hey hey), woh woh woh woh), uh-huh (uh-huh)
Hey yeah (hey yeah), hey hey (hey hey), woh woh (woh woh)
Oh yeah yeah yeah
Mommies and Daddies are too shy to talk about those birds and bees
Integrated schools had stopped, facts of life please
Girls and boys went away came back, empty after weekend
The talk on the phone consisted of a hush, voices speaking
Chorus:
And they were too young to be hippies missed out on love
Return to our teen in the late seventies in a summer of the drugs
And they were too young (too young)
And they were too fast (too fast)
Oh, the summer of drugs
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