Poison Oak

　　Poison oak, some boyhood bravery
　　When the telephone was a tin can on a string
　　And I fell asleep with you still talking to me
　　You said you weren't afraid to die
　　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
　　
　　Than when you turned away, when you slammed the door
　　When you stole the car and drove towards Mexico
　　And you wrote bad checks just to fill your arm
　　I was young enough, I still believed in war
　　
　　Well let the poets cry themselves to sleep
　　And all their tearful words will turn back into steam
　　
　　But me, I'm a single cell on the 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
　　
　　And I never thought this life was possible
　　You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for
　　
　　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