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Dashboard Confessional

The Shade of Poison Trees

Release date: 2007

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"The Shade of Poison Trees" is a track by Dashboard Confessional, from the album The Shade of Poison Trees, released 2007. Full lyrics are available below.

Lyrics

The Shade of Poison Trees

If you knew what I know, would you try

Before your time has run anew and worn you down?

Would you know what you deserve in your heart?

And if you knew what I knew would you try?

Is there time, is there time

To follow just one desire?

Is there time, is there time

To follow your heart's?

Dress your wounds, test your strength, face the night

Crave the touch, feel the pain, know the signs

Is there truth in your pain? You decide

If you knew what I know, would you try?

Is there time, is there time

To follow just one desire?

Is there time, is there time

To follow your heart's?

As we lie in the shade of poison trees

Are we as safe as we let ourselves believe?

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Track details

From The Shade of Poison Trees

2007

Album

The Shade of Poison Trees

Dashboard Confessional

Release year

2007

—Clean Breaks
—Fever Dreams
—I Light My Own Fires Now
—Matters of Blood and Connection
—Keep Watch for the Mines
—Little Bombs
—These Bones
—Tonight I'll Take What I Can Get
—Thick as Thieves
—The Widow’s Peak
—The Rush
—The Shade of Poison Trees
—The Only Gift That I Need
—Where There's Gold

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Writer: Chris Carrabba
Producer: Don Gilmore