Poison Oak

[Verse 1]

Poison oak, some boyhood bravery

When our telephone was a tin can on a string

And I fell asleep with you still talking to me

[Pre-Chorus]

You said you weren't afraid to die

[Verse 2]

In polaroids, you were dressed in women's clothes

Were you made ashamed, why'd you lock them in a drawer?

Well, I don't think that I ever loved you more

[Chorus 1]

Than when you turned away, when you slammed the door

When you stole a car and drove towards Mexico

And you wrote bad checks just to fill your arm

I was young enough, I still believed in war

[Verse 3]

Well, let the poets cry themselves to sleep

And all their tearful words would turn back into steam

[Chorus 2]

But me, I'm a single cell, on a serpent's tongue

There's a muddy field where a garden was

And I'm glad you got away, but I'm still stuck out here

My clothes are soaking wet from your brother's tears

[Bridge]

And I never thought this life was possible

You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for

[Chorus 3]

The end of paralysis, I was a statuette

Now I'm drunk as hell on a piano bench

And when I press the keys it all gets reversed

The sound of loneliness makes me happier