Luke Cassidy - The Serpent on the Pole Lyrics

Sent out to the wilderness, we were made to roam.
We gather bread from the ground, and our water from stone.
Out in the desert, no paradise we found.
Just a bunch of deadly vipers, who aim to put us in the ground.
So we got ourselves some copper. We got ourselves some tin.
We cast ourselves a viper, and poured the metal in.
We cut ourselves a tree, and we dug ourselves a hole.
Then we took the bronze serpent, and hung him on a pole.

And if venom's in your veins, you really ought to go,
Take a good hard look at the serpent on the pole.

Thousands of years later, there was a man from Galilee,
The King of the Jews, the Prince of Peace the Nazarene.
The sacrificial Lamb, the one who pays the toll.
And we hung him on the cross, like the serpent on the pole.

And if venom's in your veins, you really ought to go,
Take a good hard look at the serpent on the pole.

Thousands of years later, it seems like we forgot,
The crossing of the Jordan and the water from the rock.
But there's one thing we can't forget, we can never let go,
Of Jesus on the cross, like the serpent on the pole.

And if venom's in your veins, you really ought to go,
Take a good hard look at the serpent on the pole.

And if venom's in your veins, you really ought to go,
Take a good hard look at the serpent on the pole.