Iron & Wine - The Trapeze Swinger lyrics
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Please remember me
Happily
By the rose bush laughing
With bruises on my chin
A 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 to 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 Gate
Has some eloquent
graffiti Like "We’ll meet again"
And "Fuck the man"
"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
But now you're lit up by the city
So please remember me
Mistakenly
In the window of the tallest
tower Call and passes 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 burn babies
Upon 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 Of lead and 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
They're running in circles
Round the well
And where it spells
On the wall
behind Saint 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
Said the trapeze act was wonderful
But
never meant to last
The clowns that pass
Saw me just come up with anger
When it
filled the circus
domes 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 Pates
Do my best to make a drawing
Of God and
Lucifer A boy and girl
An
angel kissing on a
sinner A monkey and man
A marching band
All around the
frightened trapeze swinger