Sister got bit by a copperhead snake in the woods behind the house And nobody was home so I grabbed her foot and I sucked that poison out Sister got better in a month or two when the swelling it went down But I'd started off my teenage years with the poison in my mouth And we were, were too young to be hippies We missed out on the love Learned from the teens of the late-70s of the summer of the drugs Mama and daddy could never understand that life was never dull Their idea of a rollicking time was a kitchen taffy pull Acid, grass, downs and speed, junk those days were made of How could they suspect that were the monsters beneath their makeup And we were, were too young to be hippies We missed out on the love Learned from the teens of the late-70s of the summer of the drugs Boys and girls in every town The sandman spread his sand around But we are just waking up From a summer of drugs Mama and daddy could never understand that the life was too [?] The integrated schools had stopped, the facts of life movies Boys and girls went away, came back empty after a weekend All that they could suspect to hear was the hushed voices speaking And we were, were too young to be hippies We missed out on the love Turned to a teen in the late-70s of the summer of the drugs And we were, were too young We were too fast Of the summer of drugs Of the summer of drugs