Alix Olson - Picnic Table lyrics

We sat outside At the picnic table Drinking beer and smoking cigarettes I asked you to take out your barrettes, you said yeah, and as you glanced up Your hair danced up and down I smiled, you got shy, you said ‘don’t smile’ I said ‘why’, you said ‘just don’t’ I said ‘okay, I won’t’ And I smiled And your skin caught like wildfire Like there was no need for the sun You placed a finger on my cheek You said ‘that had to be done’ You carved something like a comma And I wondered what would come We went inside, I pet your cat You said ‘I think she’s lonely I think she needed that’ I said ‘are you lonely too?’ You said, ‘no girl, that kind of talk won’t do’ You said ‘the futon’s kind of lumpy But the bed’s pretty smooth’ And then I thought about her laughing heart and all the tears that make us grow And I looked into your smiling eyes and all the lines that take me so, so So much further than I intended to go. I said ‘thanks for the bed I think the lumps will have to do’ You said ‘it’s better that way’ I said ‘yeah, I think so too..." And then I thought about her laughing heart And all the lines that make it And I tucked that heart into the cradle of my brain Cause I’d never want to break it But I still picture your hair sometimes Dancing all wild in the dark I still wonder about that comma carved So curiously hard and sweet And yeah, sometimes I finish that sentence You left there on my cheek Cause you know us poets We like our moments complete