Take the baby's cane away and hide his little braces   Left to his devices, he still wants that rocky road   Feed him all your fables and your periodic tables   Fabulous, a fatalist is what he wants to be      But you drew the poison from me   Picked me off the bayonet tree   Pulled me like a tooth that kept your nights from finding sleep      Move into a bungalow and disconnect the phone line   Hello, grace. It's been awhile   Your footsteps can go unnoticed   That's not to say that you weren't missed   But I guess you weren't invited   I never lacked for company   It's for care that I was wanting      But you drew the poison from me   Picked me off the bayonet tree   Pulled me like a snaggled little loose tooth      It's these late admissions that are driving me from sleep   I admit that I admire admiration's name   But if you come back to my senses, I won't try to reason with you   Knowledge gained is knowledge used. It never works out different