Belated Promise Ring-Iron & Wine

[ti:Belated Promise Ring] [ar:Iron & Wine] [al:Around the Well (Bonus Track Version)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Belated Promise Ring - Iron & Wine [00:21.95]Sunday morning my Rebecca sleeping in with me again [00:27.15]There's a kid outside the church kicking a can [00:31.01] [00:32.61]When the cedar branches twist she turns her collar to the wind [00:37.52] [00:38.26]The weather can close the world within it's hand [00:41.82] [00:43.47]And my mother says Rebecca is as stubborn as they come [00:48.43] [00:49.04]They both call to me with words I never knew [00:52.77] [00:54.46]There's a bug inside the thimble [00:56.86]There's a band aid on her thumb [00:59.91]And a pony in the river turning blue [01:03.76] [01:05.32]They say time may give you more [01:07.51]Than your poor bones could ever take [01:10.37] [01:10.88]My Rebecca says she never wants a boy [01:14.70] [01:16.28]To be barefoot on the driveway as they wave and ride away [01:21.70]Then to run inside and curse the open door [01:25.42] [01:27.16]I once gave to my Rebecca a belated promise ring [01:32.01] [01:32.57]And she sold it to the waitress on a train [01:36.71] [01:38.00]I may find her by the phone but with a fashion magazine [01:42.87] [01:43.52]She may kiss me when her girlfriends leave again [01:47.39] [01:48.91]They say Time may give you more [01:51.15]Than your poor bones could ever take [01:54.45]I think I could never love another girl [01:58.22] [01:59.96]To be free a top a tree stump [02:02.43]And to look the other way [02:05.40]While she shines my mother's imitation pearls [02:09.49] [02:32.77]Sunday evening my Rebecca's lost a book she never read [02:38.00]And the moon already fell into the sea [02:41.98] [02:43.58]Saw the statues of our fathers in the courthouse flower bed [02:48.93]Now they blend with all the lightning tattered trees [02:53.50] [02:54.47]They say time may give you more [02:56.69]Than your poor bones could ever take [02:59.93]My Rebecca said she knew I'd want a boy [03:03.89] [03:05.53]A dollar for my boardwalk red balloon to float away [03:10.87]She would earn a pocketful to buy me more [03:14.66] [03:16.86]Na na na na na na na na [03:21.67]Na na na na na [03:25.59] [03:27.69]Na na na na na na na na [03:32.55]Na na na na na na na na