Poison Oak Lyrics - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning - Bright Eyes

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 the 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 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 could turn back into steam 

But me I'm a single cell on a serpents tongue 

And there's a muddy field where a garden was 

And I'm glad you got away 

But I'm still stuck out hear 

My clothes are soaking wet from your brothers 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