Poison Oak - 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 did you lock them in the drawer?
And 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

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 serpent's 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 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

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Poison
• Oak
• Bright
• Eyes
• Conor
• Oberst

[blowafly]

Next time you wana do something like this .. Just dont.

[taifan22]

song=amazing

you=creepy

[xMordecaizZx]

U guys r just fat ass H8ers and I think she's cute

[clu7chxxx]

Janine, I still watch this video, it still gives me goosebumps, screw the haters, you got me hooked on bright eyes, who is to this day my favorite band. So yeah, 5 years ago I had my world changed by this video. Screw off haters.

[coxng]

I loved your selection of photographs.

It was a nice vid and thank you for letting me see it! :))

[jetaimeviolist15]

You're so weird. And not the good weird (like cool weird people). You're the bad weird.

[Dollymayfrosty]

At first I liked it because I thought you were singing. xD "Wow, he sounds JUST LIKE conner." What on earth are you doing?

[StJimmy4352]

idk what everyones talking about

i think you're cute

[LEAHSTRYKER]

@Timmerfy I'm saying putting pictures of love and overdramatically mouthing the words to this song is extremely unnecisary and doesn't have a thing to do with this song. You've got to respect Bright Eyes not make Conor look stupid with this theatrical attempt to explain it with ammeture pictures found on google images of the words "preteen idea of love"

Listen to the words and watch the video being presented, last time I checked this was about his cousin not what this video is "interpreting"

[Timmerfy]

@LEAHSTRYKER and you clearly don't understand music there is no meaning to a song other than what you personally believe it to mean. It is all about interpretation and any musical artist worth their would not expect you to conform to one singular meaning. Failing to understand this sure makes you look the idiot right now.

[JazztrumpeterRocks]

oi guys stop givin her shit i recon good on her for having the guts for posting this vid