Summer of drugs lyrics

Artist  : Soul asylum 
Song : Summer of drugs
 
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 swelling 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
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 rollicking 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

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 hushed voices
speaking

Boys and girls in every town
Sand man spread his sand around
Now we are just waking up
From a summer of drugs