Brown like my eyes Cold in the river tonight There's a hundred cities Not as pretty as you Yeah, you've always been there Yeah, you always come through But if I died and went to heaven Then heaven would be this place Maybe I'm smitten Bitten by the brown snake It winds around this country town Sometimes a flood brings us to tears It's in our blood Through all the years it got my heart The brown snake A work of art A work of art ♪ Brown like my skin Where my first memories begin It's never too late To see the needle from Expo 88 It's always raining Yeah, in the sunshine state But if I died and went to heaven Then heaven would be this place Maybe I'm smitten Bitten by the brown snake It winds around this country town Sometimes a flood brings us to tears It's in our blood Through all the years it got my heart The brown snake (the brown snake) A work of art A work of art ♪ It's in our blood (it's in our blood) Through all the years it got my heart The brown snake (the brown snake) A work of art A work of art