A  Dsus2  A  Dsus2

   A                 Dsus2
poison oak some boyhood bravery
                A                   Dsus2
when a telephone was a tin can on a string
     F#                                   E
and i fell asleep with you still talking to me
     A                    Dsus2          A Dsus2
you said you weren't afraid to die
               A                           Dsus2
in polaroids you were dressed in womans clothes
          A
were you made ashamed?
                           Dsus2
why'd you lock them in the drawer?
          F#                                   E
well i don't think that i ever loved you than when
A
you turned away
        Dsus2
when you slammed the door
                  Fm7 (200230)
when you stole the car
       Em7 (020230)
drove towards mexico
              A
and you wrote bad checks
               Dsus2
just to fill your arm
                 Fm7
i was young enough
                Em7
i still believed in war

A  Dsus2   A  Dsus2

       E                              F#
but let the poets cry themselves to sleep
    E                                           F#
an all there tearful words will turn back into steam
               A                                  Dsus2
me i'm a single cell on the serpents tongue
            Fm7                         Em7
theres a muddy field where the garden was
             A
well im glad you got away
                Dsus2
but i'm still stuck out here
               Fm7
my clothes are soaking wet
           Em7
from your brothers tears

A  Dsus2  A  Dsus2

          E                            F#
and i never thought this life was possible
                E
your the yellow bird
                       F#
that i've been waiting for
                  A
the end of paralysis
                  D
i was a statuette
                  Fm7
now i'm drunk as hell
               Em7
on a piano bench
          A
and when i press the keys
                  D
its all gets reversed
             Fm7
the sound of loneliness
             Em7
makes me happier