He knows your name, boy You'll write it down Under bridges into town And what's that rusting your father's crown? And our mother sleeps in the ground ♪ I go out walking my own feet And I might sing, "Oh, bury me" And from the bedroom exudes the awful sound And our mother sleeps in the ground ♪ Oh-oh, snakes on the ladder Oh-oh, my eyes were something that I saw Oh-oh, snakes on the ladder Oh-oh, my eyes were something that I saw ♪ There's a motion in the sky And the singer who called outside To the woods reflecting back a million sounds Of our lives, inside the forest off Greyhound? Oh-oh, snakes on the ladder Oh, my eyes were something that I saw Oh-oh, snakes on the ladder Oh-oh, my eyes were something I saw