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| Bright Eyes – Poison Oak Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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Pretty sure the yellow bird refers to canary in a coal mine, where they would send down a canary in a cage and then bring it back up. If it was alive, the air was safe to breathe for the miners. I think it's a reference to the fact that the person he wrote the song about (his cousin?) got clean and sober and his life is now good and so Colin can see that it's safe and ok to live that way - an inspiration for him to get clean. |
submissions
| Bright Eyes – Poison Oak Lyrics
| 13 years ago
|
|
Pretty sure the yellow bird refers to canary in a coal mine, where they would send down a canary in a cage and then bring it back up. If it was alive, the air was safe to breathe for the miners. I think it's a reference to the fact that the person he wrote the song about (his cousin?) got clean and sober and his life is now good and so Colin can see that it's safe and ok to live that way - an inspiration for him to get clean. |
submissions
| Bright Eyes – Poison Oak Lyrics
| 13 years ago
|
|
Pretty sure the yellow bird refers to canary in a coal mine, where they would send down a canary in a cage and then bring it back up. If it was alive, the air was safe to breathe for the miners. I think it's a reference to the fact that the person he wrote the song about (his cousin?) got clean and sober and his life is now good and so Colin can see that it's safe and ok to live that way - an inspiration for him to get clean. |
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