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