Page type: lyric reference
Artist: The Roches
Canonical path: /the-roches/the-snake
Related lyric paths: 6
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The Snake
Read The Snake lyrics by The Roches on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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The Snake
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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
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The Roches performs "The Snake", and this lyric page sits inside the The Roches catalog on LyroVerse.
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