Summer of Drugs – English Lyrics

• By: Soul Asylum

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

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 swellin' 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

We 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 rollickin' 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?

And they were too young to be hippies

Missed out on the love

Learned from the teen of the late 70's

In the summer of the drugs

Boys and girls in every town

Sand man spread his sand around

Now we are just wakin' up

From a summer of drugs

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

The hushed voices speakin'

And they were too young to be hippies

Missed out on the love

Learned from the teen of the late 70's

In the summer of the drugs

Yes they were too young, they were to fast

Oh the summer of the drugs

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