Snake Bite

By Jared Benjamin

Released on October 13, 2023

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[Jared Benjamin]

Every drop of blood in my body screams for you

If I still had the means to sleep I dream of you

Saying that “I love you” doesn’t feel right; such an understatement poisons me like a snake bite, I might make up an excuse not to work and just stay with you

Only 23 when we met yet you were 21, knew you through a friend of a friend who said don’t try your luck

I knew what I wanted, I knew right when we started but in your early twenties two years can mean a fuckin’ lot

Didn’t know how to react I was honest

Told you what wanted to let you settle on it

Three weeks in you said to me “I never had the room to breathe, I never lived this life for me, or ask what I wanted”

On those stairs, I bit my tongue

If I spoke, you would’ve fuckin’ run

Every drop of blood in my body screams for you

If I still had the means to sleep I dream of you

Saying that “I love you” doesn’t feel right; such an understatement poisons me like a snake bite

I might make up an excuse not to work and just stay with you

Love is like the apple from the garden, just one bite, you’re fucked

Said that we would stick it out till Friday for the next three months

Waited for the day when I wouldn’t have to pretend when saying those three words wouldn’t make you wanna up and run

Bravely, take it

I could wait, fuck waiting

You have one shot: to make this or break this, just say it

Just say it

Just say it

Every drop of blood in my body screams for you. Screams for you

If I still had the means to sleep I dream of you. I dream of you

Saying that “I love you” doesn’t feel right; such an understatement poisons me like a snake bite I might make up an excuse not to work and just stay with you. Stay with you

Next thing I kn~ow, I’m ho~ldng you clo~se. With water on your cheeks you whisper to me


[Diana]

Every drop of blood in my body screams for you

If I still had the means to sleep I dream of you


[Both]

Saying that “I love you” doesn’t feel right; such an understatement poisons me like a snake bite, I might make up an excuse not to work and just stay with you. Stay with you