They see me therenTheir eyes are everywherenSniffing at the linen for the dirtnI feel their burning starenThat hate will later flarenAnd writhe upon their women full of hurtnnLace magic ink with venom, criticsnMilked from infant teethnThough scathing blows are so arthriticnWhen they're set on slow repeatnnThey know I carenSmell storm clouds in the airnHissing at the bit above my heartnBut though I darenThe dyed black route of splitting hairsnI favour not to tempt the poisoned apple cartnnI feel two needles risingnSnake eyes are hypnotisingnI know they seethe, despisingnAll that we possessnnI feel two needles risingnThe truth is always blindingnTheir lies, unappetisingnToxins to digestnnThey breed nightmaresnDark horses of despairnTaking twisted courses in the artnAnd were I therenTo bet my bones on grave affairsnI'd have their guts for garters from the startnnI feel two needles risingnSnake eyes are hypnotisingnI know they seethe, despisingnAll that we possessnnI feel two needles risingnThe truth is always blindingnTheir lies, unappetisingnToxins to digestnnIt's not without hate to crawl flat in the filthnAs other less basilisks flynAnd brothers are clasped to the breasts of a sylphnAs their royal loves slither to dienSo shedding dead skin, working true colours loosenRenewing the red in their eyesnThey coil like sin within thinning excusenCold-blooded to sharpen the liesnnUncivil serpents, race deceiversnDisfigureheads varnished with feversnSnake-house creepers in our dreamsnOf Eden, flee before we meannTo throw the worms out with the watersnRife with hated spawnnAnd set a sword to whirl and slaughternAll vipers at the gates of dawn