A Rattlesnake in the Basement

There’s an elephant in the kitchen

We pretend he isn’t there

He cries about the basement,

says a rattlesnake lives down there

Wanted, dead or alive, he cries

that snake really must go

The elephant in the kitchen

doesn’t have a soul

The rattlesnake in the basement

more rattle than he is bite,

whines about the kitchen

says the elephant isn’t right

Open your foolish eyes, he cries

that elephant has to go

the rattlesnake in the basement

doesn’t have a soul

There’s an army on the staircase

anxious to drop their bomb

to hell with right or wrong

they kill children, dad, and mom

We cleaned out the basement, they cried

snaked him out of his hole

The army on the staircase

doesn’t have a soul

Sandy Knauer ã 2004