You come on down to the pit
  Come on down to where the vipers spit
  I've been waiting for you down here
    Cover your eyes with the velvet hands of darkness (x2)
    CHORUS:
  I don't even know your name
  You won't even see my face
  But you choose to play my games
  Welcome to the hard place
    I bring you back from the brink
  Are you surprised in every way that you like it?
  Are you surprised that you want it?
    Cover your lips with the wicked tongue of silence (x2)
    REPEAT CHORUS
    SOLO
    Back to back you ride the snake, he, he, he
  You feel it strike, you feel it bite you
    Cover your eyes with the velvet hands of darkness
  Cover your lips with the wicked tongue of silence
    REPEAT CHORUS
    Now you can feel the hard, the hard plac