A Rattlesnake in Painful Hibernation

https://suno.com/song/8e7bb259-1cfc-44c0-a741-1f80285e73bf

Words by recovering Elvis

Verse 1

Woke up in a fever, cold sweat and dust in my veins,

Whiskey on the table, ghosts hummin’ my name.

Bullet hole memories, stitched with sin and pride,

Every saint I ever met took the devil’s side.

Pre-Chorus

Ain’t no mercy in the mirror, just a scar I feed,

Dreams crawl slow where the daylight bleeds.

Chorus

I’m a rattlesnake in painful hibernation,

Coiled in the dark of my own creation.

Heart still hissin’, half alive, half gone —

Hell keeps hummin’ my favorite song.

Post-Chorus (short & snappy)

Let it burn. Let it bite.

I ain’t done tonight.

Verse 2

Blood on my boots from the roads I’ve crossed,

I pay in pain for every coin I lost.

Love tried to save me but it burned too quick,

Now I sleep with the sins that made me sick.

Pre-Chorus

Cold steel prayers in the chamber’s spin,

You don’t cheat hell, you just walk back in.

Chorus

I’m a rattlesnake in painful hibernation,

Coiled in the dark of my own creation.

Heart still hissin’, half alive, half gone —

Hell keeps hummin’ my favorite song.

Post-Chorus

Let it burn. Let it bite.

I ain’t done tonight.

Bridge

Every outlaw’s dream is a barroom grave,

Where the jukebox moans for the soul it gave.

But I still twitch when the thunder calls,

‘Cause even dead snakes dance in the fall.

Final Chorus

I’m a rattlesnake in painful hibernation,

Waitin’ on the heat for my resurrection.

Heart still hissin’, half alive, half gone —

Hell keeps hummin’ my favorite song.

Final Post-Chorus (fade)

Let it burn. Let it bite.

I ain’t done tonight.