I remember it all clearly now,
The words he spoke to me
They all came from this bird I saw,
Sitting high up in that tree
At first I thought I\'d lost my mind,
Just listening to this bird
But not too long into his tale,
I hung on every word
The tale that he relayed to me,
Was filled with drugs and crime
And ended with a friend of his,
In prison doing time
It started in a park he said,
Just a couple of years ago
He never named the park he meant,
But said that I would know
His friend was walking down this path,
When he came across this man
Who sat beneath a big shade tree,
With a cigarette in his hand
He asked the man for a cigarette,
Then he smoked it then and there
He said the only reason that he did,
Cause a pigeon double dared
From that day on he couldn\'t stop,
He was smoking more and more
And to get his fix for nicotine,
He started robbing liquor stores
Then, when cigarettes no longer worked,
He switched to dip and chew
And swore he\'d hit the hard stuff,
Before he was ever through
The cops already knew his name,
By the time he was finally stopped
And they sentenced him to life without,
Inside a local mall\'s pet shop
I\'m sure this tale seems out of place,
Or to you may seem a joke
But its as real as anything could be,
To the friend of which he spoke
That friend has thrown away his life,
I\'m sure he must regret
All because he took a dare,
To smoke one cigarette