Poison Oak

Intro: (A D2)x2

A                           D2
Poison oak some boyhood bravery
     A                              D2
When a telephone was a tin can on a string
     F#m                                   E
And i fell asleep with you still talking to me
                      A            D2    A D2
You said you weren't afraid to die
   A                                   D2
In polaroids you were dressed in womans clothes
        A
Were you made ashamed?
                           D2
Why'd you lock them in the drawer?
   F#m                                   E
Well I don't think that I ever loved you more
               A
Than when you turned away
        D2
And you slammed the door
        F#m
And you stole the car
                 Bm7
And drove towards mexico
        A
And you wrote bad checks
        D2
Just to fill your arm
      F#m
I was young enough
          Bm7           A D2 A D2
I still believed in war

       E                            F#m
But let the poets cry themselves to sleep
            E                                   F#m
And all there tearful words will turn back into steam
               A            D2
But me I'm a single cell on the serpent’s tongue
            F#m                 Bm7
There’s a muddy field where a garden was
             A
And im glad you got away
                D2
But i'm still stuck out here
               F#m
My clothes are soaking wet
           Bm7
From your brothers tears

 A  D2  A  D2

      E                             F#m
And I never thought this life was possible
        E
You’re the yellow bird
             F#m
That i've been waiting for
             A
The end of paralysis
         D
I was a statuette
        F#m
Now i'm drunk as hell
     Bm7
On a piano bench
           A
And when I press the keys
        D
It all gets reversed
             F#m
The sound of loneliness
         Bm7
Makes me happier

 A  D2  A  D2