Snakeskin Garter

Young as flowers in the spring
Her eyes were bright and seemed to sing
The songs that I had long been searching for
I drank the cup she gave to me
And saw things past and things to be
And old bodies that I wore before

She wore a garter snakeskin
She wore a garter snakeskin
She wore a garter snakeskin
She wore a snakeskin garter

Late rose men in the day
To dance and laugh the night away
Twilight over at the new night
Higher, faster grew the song
As in a circle, everyone
There is naked and dying inside

She wore a garter snakeskin
She wore a garter snakeskin
She wore a garter snakeskin
She wore a snakeskin garter

Young as flowers in the spring
Her eyes were bright and seemed to sing
The songs that I had long been searching for
Then without a word or note
I heard that she had gone alone
Where the forces of the night had claimed her soul

She wore a garter snakeskin
She wore a garter snakeskin
She wore a garter snakeskin
She wore a snakeskin garter