Serpent in My Head

[Verse 1]
Red sun
Burns a hole in my bed
Ashtray on the windowsill
Glowing like a threat
Your voice
Still crawling through my veins
I taste your name on the air
Like gasoline rain
[Chorus]
Got a serpent in my head
Keeps hissing your name
Spins the ceiling
Paints it red
Sets my thoughts in flame
I keep shaking off the skin
But it curls back around instead
I can’t outrun this wicked grin
Got a serpent in my head (yeah)
[Verse 2]
Bare feet
On a crooked kitchen tile
Floor sways
Door waves
Walls start to smile
You left
But your shadow never quit
It’s smoking my lungs
Every time I try to quit
[Chorus]
Got a serpent in my head
Keeps hissing your name
Spins the ceiling
Paints it red
Sets my thoughts in flame
I keep shaking off the skin
But it curls back around instead
I can’t outrun this wicked grin
Got a serpent in my head (oh, in my head)
[Bridge]
You say “breathe”
But the room says “burn”
Every picture on the wall
Starts to twist and turn
If love is just a trick
Then baby
Pull the thread
Let the colors all drip
Let ’em flood this head
[Chorus]
Got a serpent in my head
Keeps hissing your name
Spins the ceiling
Paints it red
Sets my thoughts in flame
I keep shaking off the skin
But it curls back around instead
I can’t outrun this wicked grin
Got a serpent in my head
Got a serpent in my head (yeah)
Got a serpent in my head (hey!)

rock, Psychedelic blues-rock jam with male vocals; snarling, overdriven guitars run through chewy wah, bass locked to a circular, hypnotic groove. Drums are explosive and roomy with big tom fills and trashy cymbals. Verses stay smoky and coiled, then choruses hit harder with doubled vocals and fuzzed-out riffs. Drop in a mid-song wah-drenched guitar solo that spirals upward, then return to a thick, head-nodding outro vamp., raw, blues, hypnotic, electric