David Pirner of Soul Asylum talks about working on the album Sweet Relief : A Benefit For Victoria Williams and plays the video "Summer of Drugs" witch features Soul Asylum with Victoria Williams and the Sweet Relief Ensemble
Lyrics
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
And we were too young to be hippies
Missed out on the love
Turned to a teen in the late 70's
Boys and girls in every town
Sand man spread his sand around
Now we are just waking up
From a summer of drugs
Hey Hey (hey hey) whoa whoa (whoa whoa) aha (aha) hey yeah (hey yeah) hey hey (hey hey) whoa whoa (whoa whoa) oh yeah yeah yeah
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
And they 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
They were too young (too young), and they were too fast (too fast) oh the summer of drugs