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sex appeal
Snake oil peddlers who deal
In images to make ya feel
Immortal.  It's a cinch to steal
From them who never foot the bill.
It's all good, E-Z

sex appeal
Snake oil peddlers who deal
In images to make ya feel
Immortal.  It's a cinch to steal
From them who never foot the bill.
It's all good, E-Z

Snake Oil

Kristin Hersh

The Grotto

2003

White and if by the light
I feel the itch to go
The tears on my shoulder
Freeze then boil
I wouldn't be here
If not for your snake oil

me, I'm game boy
Lost control, I'm Playboi
Other niggas fake, snake oil
Always wait,
Never take, I been loyal
She don't wanna wait, she take more

Why can't we just be in this moment
Trading places and positions
Lock the door on all the snake-oil
Selling deadbeat politicians
Stick misfortune in

sniffing cheese for the trap
Can I get a please for this crap?
You're crypto-mining, laptop hands running around the world
This generation's version of snake

Behold, the snake handler's alive again!
Bare witness to this newfound sensation!
Light a candle for the snake oil salesman
Even God can't stand

Guns out
Shoot out over affection or the ghost of what once was
If you're playing victim
I'm living as a villain
Touted like a snake oil cure for my

Their charming words chicanery
Their philters all snake oil sold
Panacea a false remedy

Outside your grace just enmity
I hide within your walls
Holy

of all the astronauts
You see it queens
You see it in screens
You see it in the ways that they attempt to please

Snake oil prophet puts his hands in

deceit you and lie to the people
Fuzzy Visions getting clearer now I’m seeing see through boy
Pseudo healers with snake oil
Haters and Hoes
Foes dressed in

the kitchen
I sell snake oil to appease them
Their lies are bewitching
Time is bruised
Showing signs of its abuse
As I take it for granted
You don't know me

Town
Settin' up for a medicine show, he'll sell
Lydia Pink, a snake-oil drink
His pretty bottles all in a row

He's even got Fontaine's Balm

One of the Best Ones

Bruce Cockburn

Nothing But a Burning Light

1991

recognize what I feel
But of the dancing scenes that life reveals
This is one of the best ones 

Say what you will
There's no snake oil or pill
Can make

Varying Degrees of Con-Artistry

Duncan Sheik

Humming

1998

Promised cures for every man
Snake oil and circuses
You can get to heaven, yes you can
So judge the books by their surfaces

Someone's taking

GMO

Beth Gibbons

Key to the Kuffs

2012

and stuff in it make it stink it's why it's boiled
Snake oil sales from doorbell doctors who slip Mickey's
And trick you to strip to get jipped quickly

shit
And let them run free and spread the fear
Snake oil is bringing pain
Cloro won’t help but lets keep the faith

Escape from Brazil, if you can

the way
These mannequins surround me with no expounding
Click bait plates I'm fed, need to separate myself from the dead
You're misled by the snake oil

Poppycock and balderdash
Spinning webs to capture cash
Cure-all snake oil, quantum quacks
Pay no mind and damn the facts
Chakra'linin Chopra quotin

bruised, corrupt dominant roots
Smothered in snake oil, taste the tonic's spoil
Drink it down, lap it up, ties your stomach in a knot

Are you buying what

to keep me from talking
Deadman
Deadman walking
I have no fear
Take it to my grave but live to see another day
I have no fear
Devil on back, snake oil on my

riding
Bleeding confidence
Or insecure
Yearning to convince
No fools here
To sell your tricks
Snake oil salesman
Keep your gifts
Your lies are poison
Your

your feelings
Snake oil healings, worthless tears

Come with us and fly the friendly skies
Turn away and ride the wind, yeah. It's time you've had

selling snake oil, said he’s almost out
Then he’s got a bridge to sell you and you have no doubt
You’ll believe anything that comes out of his stupid mouth