Lyric discussion by musicalcure 

Cover art for Serpentine lyrics by Chris Bathgate

Such a beautiful song, I just heard it once, and I'm in love with it. I sure wish I knew what it was about! Any ideas out there? Even without a clue I feel like he's describing how I feel sometimes, luckily not today. :) I thought the first verse it sounded like person singing it has died, but it could just be metaphors.

A long stone and my day's all serpentine (long stone-gravestone?) (serpentine shadows on the graveyard at the end of the day?)

The tired tarnish in my chest rests sense of SARS (he died of SARS?)

And one dull dawn where they hum that splits its length (beautiful line...what is the loud humming noise in the morning at the cemetary? machines for digging?

Does my name sting your tongue? Now does it babe? (when she remembers feels guilty?)

But then the 2nd and 3rd don't seem to go with that idea...so it's probably something else. The lyrics are so amazing.