True Lies II

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