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The Ideal Copy
A Serious of Snakes

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A Serious of Snakes

Release date: 1986

From The Ideal Copy

About This Track

"A Serious of Snakes" is a track by Wire, from the album The Ideal Copy, released 1986. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Wire

Wire

Lyrics

A Serious of Snakes

It looks serious

Is that a paper

I see in your hand?

Then a pause for a German phrase

"Nie wieder nie wieder, nie wieder nie wieder"

Never again, none of your lip, y' tulip

Y' tulip, y' pea-brained earwig

Y' punk, y' silver-tongued shnake

I'd rather make furniture than go to midnight mass

Y'tulip, y'pea-brained earwig

Y'punk, y'silver-tongued shnake

He's a genius in research, I simply fell in love

I've got your zip-code

Over there USA

Green turbaned angels

Annexe the right bank

Baby in a shambolic sideshow

They abandoned the baby

Baby trained, baby returns

Baby kills Mary and Joseph

Y'tulip, y'pea-brained earwig

Y'punk, y'silver-tongued shnake

Talk about laughing

I might have defeated cancer

Or so they say

Electrocuted, I was transformed into a foot soldier of

The good general

Passionate for knights

In the heart of ancient Persia

Fearless to go forth

Fearless to adapt

Then blow to pieces

Y'tulip, y'pea-brained earwig

Y'punk, y'silver-tongued shnake

Please send your god

My very best wishes

Does he still sing?

Does he still fish?

Does he still help you

On your days off?

Don't stop that dripping

I prefer the old tortures

It's only when you stop that I feel it

Y'tulip, y'pea-brained earwig

Y'punk, y'silver-tongued shnake

When you lose the ship

It's like losing a part of you

I have a sense of my exposure

It's all on the neg

I try to use 2 instead of 3

Ah, but I have secrets

And there's a story in me

It starts ................

Dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot

(Can you hear me, can you hear me?)

Lyrics provided by LRCLIB

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Track details

From The Ideal Copy

1986

Album

Release year

1986

—Ahead (II)
—Advantage In Height
—Still Shows
—Ambitious
—Ambulance Chasers (Live)
—A Serious of Snakes
—Feed Me (Live)
—Feed Me
—Drill
—Cheeking Tongues
—Madman's Honey
—Point of Collapse
—Over Theirs
—Up to the Sun
—Vivid Riot of Red (Live)

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A Question of Degree
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Cactused
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Credits

Writer: Wire
Producer: Daniel Miller, Gareth Jones
Credited: Daniel Miller, Gareth Jones