The Trapeze Swinger

Song The Trapeze Swinger
Artist Iron & Wine
Album Around the Well

Lyrics

[00:54.17] Please remember me happily
[01:02.66] By the rosebush laughing
[01:06.53] With bruises on my chin the time when
[01:15.17] We counted every black car passing
[01:18.95] Your house beneath the hill and up until
[01:27.91] Someone caught us in the kitchen
[01:32.02] With maps a mountain range a piggy bank
[01:40.57] A vision too removed to mention
[01:44.49] But please remember me fondly
[01:53.27] I heard from someone you're still pretty
[01:57.72] And then they went on to say that the Pearly Gates
[02:06.35] Had some eloquent graffiti
[02:10.09] Like 'We'll meet again' and 'Fuck the man'
[02:18.66] And 'Tell my mother not to worry'
[02:22.87] And angels with their great handshakes
[02:31.37] But always done in such a hurry
[02:35.58] And please remember me at Halloween
[02:44.30] Making fools of all the neighbors
[02:48.22] Our faces painted white by midnight
[02:57.03] We'd forgotten one another
[03:00.90] And when the morning came I was ashamed
[03:09.72] Only now it seems so silly
[03:13.90] That season left the world and then returned
[03:22.28] And now you're lit up by the city
[03:26.34] So please remember me mistakenly
[03:35.18] In the window of the tallest tower
[03:39.43] Call then pass us by but much too high
[03:47.68] To see the empty road at happy hour
[03:52.14] Gleam and resonate just like the gates
[04:00.49] Around the Holy Kingdom
[04:04.62] With words like 'Lost and found' and 'Don't look down
[04:13.15] And 'Someone save temptation'
[04:17.22] And please remember me as in the dream
[04:25.73] We had as rug burned babies
[04:29.95] Among the fallen trees and fast asleep
[04:38.55] Beside the lions and the ladies
[04:42.75] That called you what you like and even might
[04:51.59] Give a gift for your behavior
[04:55.84] A fleeting chance to see a trapeze
[05:04.30] Swinger high as any savior
[05:08.29] But please remember me my misery
[05:16.79] And how it lost me all I wanted
[05:20.82] Those dogs that love the rain and chasing trains
[05:29.69] The colored birds above there running
[05:33.69] In circles round the well and where it spells
[05:42.44] On the wall behind St Peter
[05:46.18] So bright on cinder gray in spray paint
[05:55.20] Who the hell can see forever
[05:59.07] And please remember me seldomly
[06:07.79] In the car behind the carnival
[06:11.70] My hand between your knees you turn from me
[06:20.35] And said the trapeze act was wonderful
[06:24.61] But never meant to last the clowns that passed
[06:33.23] Saw me just come up with anger
[06:37.05] When it filled with circus dogs the parking lot
[06:46.11] Had an element of danger
[06:49.71] So please remember me finally
[06:58.53] And all my uphill clawing
[07:02.50] My dear but if I make the Pearly Gates
[07:11.49] I'll do my best to make a drawing
[07:15.23] Of God and Lucifer a boy and girl
[07:23.99] An angel kissing on a sinner
[07:28.44] A monkey and a man a marching band
[07:36.89] All around the frightened trapeze swinger
[07:41.41] Nah nah nah
[07:46.42] Nah nah nah
[07:49.74] Nah nah nah