Snake Hill Lyrics - Outer South - Conor Oberst

I was born on Snake Hill and that's where I'll probably die 

'Cause I don't like to kill but I've got poison in my bite 

Well, I feel safe to say 

That I should probably stay upon Snake Hill 

My mother told me son you've got strychnine in your blood 

It comes from pedigree ancestry 

She warned me not to leave, said my conscience was too deep 

That when I bite it would hurt mostly me 

For many, many years well I stayed up on that hill 

Occasionally I'd go down to the edge 

Just to see what I could see 

Soon curiosity got the best of me 

And it's a big world and it's not fair to me 

To have to stay up when there's so much to see 

I wanna play with others that I need to meet 

The poison will be poison till it's through 

Soon I hit the world I discovered that a girl 

Was what my mother tried to hide from me 

She could make you feel alive, she could make you wanna die 

And that's exactly what she did to me 

And it was only self-defense and I coiled up and I bit 

I let my venom run into her veins and I sat and watched her die to me 

Then I realized I was born on Snake Hill and that's where I'll probably die 

'Cause I don't like to kill but I've got poison in my bite 

Well, I feel safe to say 

That I should probably stay upon Snake Hill 

And it's a big world and it's not fair to me 

To have to stay when there's so much to see 

I wanna play with others that I need to meet 

And poison will be poison till it's through 

Poison will be poison till it's through 

Poison will be poison till it's through 

Poison will be poison till it's through