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Please remember me, happily |
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By the rosebush laughing |
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With bruises on my chin, the time when |
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We counted every black car passing |
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Your house beneath the hill and up until |
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Someone caught us in the kitchen |
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With maps, a mountain range, a piggy bank |
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A vision too removed to mention |
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But please remember me, fondly |
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I heard from someone you're still pretty |
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And then they went on to say that the |
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Pearly Gates |
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Had such eloquent graffiti |
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Like 'We'll meet again' and ' |
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Fuck the man' |
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And 'Tell my mother not to worry' |
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And angels with their great handshakes |
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But always done in such a hurry |
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And please remember me, at |
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Halloween |
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Making fools of all the neighbors |
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Our faces painted white, by midnight |
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We'd forgotten one another |
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And when the morning came |
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I was ashamed |
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Only now it seems so silly |
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That season left the world and then returned |
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And now you're lit up by the city |
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So please remember me, mistakenly |
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In the window of the tallest tower |
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Call, then pass us by but much too high |
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To see the empty road at happy hour |
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Gleam and resonate just like the gates |
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Around the |
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Holy Kingdom |
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With words like, ' |
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Lost and found' and ' |
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Don't look down' |
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And 'Someone save temptation' |
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And please remember me as in the dream |
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We had as rug burned babies |
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Among the fallen trees and fast asleep |
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Beside the lions and the ladies |
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That called you what you like and even might |
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Give a gift for your behavior |
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A fleeting chance to see a trapeze |
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Swinger high as any savior |
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But please remember me, my misery |
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And how it lost me all |
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I wanted Those dogs that love the rain and chasing trains |
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The colored birds above their running |
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In circles round the well and where it spells |
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On the wall behind |
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St. Peter |
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So bright on cinder gray in spray paint ' |
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Who the hell can see forever?' |
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And please remember me, seldomly |
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In the car behind the carnival |
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My hand between your knees, you turn from me |
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And said the trapeze act was wonderful |
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But never meant to last, the clowns that passed |
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Saw me just come up with anger |
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When it filled with circus dogs, the parking lot |
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Had an element of danger |
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So please remember me, finally |
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And all my uphill clawing |
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My dear, but if |
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I make the |
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Pearly Gates |
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I'll do my best to make a drawing |
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Of God and |
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Lucifer, a boy and girl |
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An angel kissin' on a sinner |
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A monkey and a man, a marching band |
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All around the frightened trapeze swinger |
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Nah nah nah |
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Nah nah nah |
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Nah nah nah |
