Summer Of Drugs Lyrics - Black Gold: The Best Of Soul Asylum - Soul Asylum

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