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IRON and WINE lyrics : "Trapeze Swinger"

Please remember me happily
By the rosebush laughing
With bruises on my chin the time when

We counted every black car passing

Your house beneath the hill and up until

Someone caught us in the kitchen
With maps a mountain range a piggy bank
A vision too removed to mention


But please remember me fondly
I heard from someone you're still pretty

And then they went on to say that the pearly gates
Had some eloquent graffiti


Like 'we'll meet again' and '$#&@ the man'
And 'tell my mother not to worry'
And angels with their great handshakes

But always done in such a hurry

And please remember me at halloween

Making fools of all the neighbors
Our faces painted white by midnight
We'd forgotten one another


And when the morning came i was ashamed
Only now it seems so silly

That season left the world and then returned
And now you're lit up by the city


So please remember me mistakenly
In the window of the tallest tower
Call then pass us by but much too high

To see the empty road at happy hour

Gleam and resonate just like the gates

Around the holy kingdom
With words like 'lost and found' and 'don't look down
And 'someone save temptation'


And please remember me as in the dream
We had as rug burned babies

Among the fallen trees and fast asleep
Beside the lions and the ladies


That called you what you like and even might
Give a gift for your behavior
A fleeting chance to see a trapeze

Swinger high as any savior

But please remember me my misery

And how it lost me all i wanted
Those dogs that love the rain and chasing trains
The colored birds above there running


In circles round the well and where it spells
On the wall behind st. peter

So bright on cinder gray in spray paint
'who the hell can see forever?'


And please remember me seldomly
In the car behind the carnival
My hand between your knees you turn from me

And said the trapeze act was wonderful

But never meant to last the clowns that passed

Saw me just come up with anger
When it filled with circus dogs the parking lot
Had an element of danger


So please remember me finally
And all my uphill clawing

My dear but if i make the pearly gates
I?ll do my best to make a drawing


Of god and lucifer a boy and girl
An angel kissin? on a sinner
A monkey and a man a marching band
All around the frightened trapeze swinger


Nah nah nah
Nah nah nah
Nah nah nah
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