Summer of Drugs

歌詞

Sister got bit by a copperhead snake in the woods behind the house Nobody was home so I grabbed her foot and sucked that poison out Sister got better in a month or so when the swelling it went down And I'd started off my teenage years with poison in my mouth We were too young to be hippies Missed out on the love Learned from the teens of the late-70s in the summer of the drugs Mama and daddy could never understand that life was never dull Their idea of a rollicking time was a kitchen taffy pull Acid, grass, downs and speed, junk those days were made of How could they suspect those kids were monsters beneath their makeup We were too young to be hippies Missed out on the love Learned from the teens of the late-70s in the summer of the drugs To boys and girls in every town The sandman spread his sand around Now we are just waking up from the summer of drugs Mamas and daddies' too shy to talk about those birds and bees The integrated schools had stopped, the facts of life were these Girls and boys went away, came back empty after a weekend And talk on telephones consisted of hushed voices speaking