The Snake Lyrics - The Roches

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 "What girlfriend? We don't see any girlfriend." 

As you open the door of your Mercedes Benz 

Now you got the oyster you don't need the pearl when 

You can have my beautiful smile 

That wonderfully elegant style 

All my show business connections 

Both of my cats affections 

The clothes you bought me are yours 

That Timex watch endures 

My good relationship with your mom 

My ability to remain calm, 

But here I'd be like a dead person looking down 

On the cemetery where they placed a stone 

With a name on it like Jane Smith or John Brown 

That I no longer recognized as my own