Intro: F#m
F#m
I heard about the venom
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At a broke down Five and Dime
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The rain cried down the window
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Just like those tears of mine
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Just then a gray haired woman
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Sat down right next to me
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She heard me cry and looked in my eye
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And said, "Baby, I got what you need"
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You need a snakebite
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And once you get that venom in your veins
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They'll come alive
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I know just what you go through every day
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That pain inside, I can make it right
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With the snakebite
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She handed me a map with streets
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I said, "I've never seen"
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And she told me, "My friend, this town has secrets
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Darker than you could ever dream"
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I went to some back alley
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Behind a liquor store
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If someone had told me how tight it would hold me
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I never would have open the door
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I got the snakebite
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And once I had that venom in my veins
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I came alive
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Oh, you don't know what I go through everyday
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The pain inside, I'm gonna make it right
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With the snakebite
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My momma told me
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Baby, be wary of evil ones
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Who want to ensnare the heavy hearted
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Into their webs and feed upon their souls
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Oh momma, I hope you never know
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It hasn't been a year now
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And all my hair is gray
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You know, it's funny
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But I don't remember my own name
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I'd go and hurt that woman
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Who put this pain in me
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But my heart is weak, it wants that venom
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She comes around 'cause she knows I need
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The snakebite
F#m
Oh, I gotta get that venom in my veins
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To feel alive
F#m
Oh, you don't know what I go through every day
A C#
This pain inside, I'm gonna make it right
Bm
With the snakebite
F#m
Oh, I gotta get that venom in my veins
Bm
And come alive
F#m
Oh, you don't know what I go through every day
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That pain inside, I'm gonna make it right
F#m
With the snakebite
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Oh, I got the snakebite