Belated Promise Ring

Song Belated Promise Ring
Artist Iron & Wine
Album Around the Well

Lyrics

[00:00.31] belated promise ring - Iron & Wine
[00:21.65] Sunday morning, my Rebecca sleeping in with me again
[00:26.84] There's a kid outside the church kicking a can
[00:32.20] When the cedar branches twist she turns her collar to the wind
[00:37.75] The weather can close the world within its hand
[00:43.18] And my mother says Rebecca is as stubborn as they come
[00:48.61] They both call to me with words I never knew
[00:54.16] There's a bug inside the thimble, there's a band-aid on her thumb
[00:59.47] And a pony in the river turning blue
[01:04.96] They say, "Time may give you more than your poor bones could ever take"
[01:10.51] My Rebecca says she never wants a boy
[01:16.00] To be barefoot on the driveway as they wave and ride away
[01:21.37] Then to run inside and curse the open door
[01:26.86] I once gave to my Rebecca a belated promise ring
[01:32.29] And she sold it to the waitress on a train
[01:37.72] I may find her by the phone but with a fashion magazine
[01:43.15] She may kiss me when her girlfriends leave again
[01:48.64] They say, "Time may give you more than your poor bones could ever take"
[01:54.07] I think I could never love another girl
[01:59.49] To be free atop a tree stump and to look the other way
[02:04.99] While she shines my mother's imitation pearls
[02:16.72]
[02:32.54] Sunday evening my Rebecca's lost a book she never read
[02:37.60] And the moon already fell into the sea
[02:43.10] Saw the statues of our fathers in the courthouse flower bed
[02:48.34] Now they blend with all the lightning-tattered trees
[02:54.20] They say, "Time may give you more than your poor bones could ever take"
[02:59.51] My Rebecca said she knew I'd want a boy
[03:05.19] A dollar for my boardwalk red balloon, to float away
[03:10.43] She would earn a pocketful to buy me more