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Picnic Table Lyrics by Alix Olson

Built Like That

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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
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Alix Olson

Alix Olson

About “Picnic Table” by Alix Olson

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"Picnic Table" is credited to Alix Olson. Songwriting credits may include additional writers listed on the release; check the credits section on this page for linked collaborators.

"Picnic Table" appears on "Built Like That".

Visit the Alix Olson artist page at /artist/alix-olson for biography, popular tracks, and links to more lyric pages.

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