Mamba

I saw the brake lights come on like sunsets
I guess nothing lasts forever
So give me the highlights
Don't spare me the lowlifes
Just give me the mamba
Just give me the mamba

I see it in myself
The snake under the skin
The one that sells me out
The one that lets me win

The one that makes me good and evil
The one that makes me good and evil
The one that makes me good and evil
The one that makes me good and evil

I want sweetness, I want venom
I want it twenty four seven
I want to fill this hole with heaven
Whatever that means
So give me flesh, give me consequence
Let’s make it raw, make it real
Let it steal my heart forever
I want to look that mamba in the eye
Never let it die
Let it keep me on my toes, so my mind will never close
I don't have the time to spare on this fearful affair
We're just specks of dust on a speck of dust

I see it in myself
The snake under the skin
The one that sells me out
The one that lets me win

The one that makes me good and evil
The one that makes me good and evil
The one that makes me good and evil
The one that makes me good and evil

Cause I made up my mind
Oh when I was a young man
Got it tattooed oh
Oh on the back of my hand
So I could not forget
Oh that playing with fire
Was the only way I
I could ever be satisfied