The Mother Hips - Poison Oak lyrics

The spiders and the snakes you've known me For at least a dozen centuries They know my poison's always at the surface In the bottom of the shadowed canyons Is where I grow without companions For what I want you'd only be superfluous You can call all those like these defensive Who hear your claims and then seem apprehensive But if all the folks who touch him are against him Then he'll spread his oil on each and every one There are men who do not blossom in expression I've watched them live and I've never seen confessions It's who they are that speaks to those who listen And it's just their leaves that glisten in the sun There are days when I am sad and cold and callous There are days when I get mad at even Alice But she's welcome like a body into soil Like whiskers rising to the barber's towel But she gets too close and then defense swallows reason And she's the skin and I am the oil She's the naked skin and I am the oil