The Trapeze Swinger-Iron & Wine

[ti:The Trapeze Swinger] [ar:Iron & Wine] [al:Around the Well (Bonus Track Version)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Trapeze Swinger - Iron & Wine [00:54.17]Please remember me happily [01:00.51] [01:02.66]By the rosebush laughing [01:06.53]With bruises on my chin the time when [01:13.68] [01:15.17]We counted every black car passing [01:18.95]Your house beneath the hill and up until [01:26.43] [01:27.91]Someone caught us in the kitchen [01:32.02]With maps a mountain range a piggy bank [01:38.84] [01:40.57]A vision too removed to mention [01:43.87] [01:44.49]But please remember me fondly [01:51.74] [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 [02:04.24] [02:06.35]Had some eloquent graffiti [02:10.09]Like 'We'll meet again' and 'F**k the man' [02:16.93] [02:18.66]And 'Tell my mother not to worry' [02:22.00] [02:22.87]And angels with their great handshakes [02:30.11] [02:31.37]But always done in such a hurry [02:35.07] [02:35.58]And please remember me at Halloween [02:42.52] [02:44.30]Making fools of all the neighbors [02:48.22]Our faces painted white by midnight [02:55.04] [02:57.03]We'd forgotten one another [03:00.05] [03:00.90]And when the morning came I was ashamed [03:08.45] [03:09.72]Only now it seems so silly [03:13.90]That season left the world and then returned [03:20.99] [03:22.29]And now you're lit up by the city [03:26.34]So please remember me mistakenly [03:33.77] [03:35.19]In the window of the tallest tower [03:39.43]Call then pass us by but much too high [03:46.41] [03:47.68]To see the empty road at happy hour [03:52.14]Gleam and resonate just like the gates [03:59.30] [04:00.49]Around the Holy Kingdom [04:04.03] [04:04.62]With words like 'Lost and found' and 'Don't look down [04:12.33] [04:13.16]And 'Someone save temptation' [04:16.50] [04:17.22]And please remember me as in the dream [04:24.42] [04:25.73]We had as rug burned babies [04:29.96]Among the fallen trees and fast asleep [04:37.43] [04:38.55]Beside the lions and the ladies [04:42.76]That called you what you like and even might [04:50.06] [04:51.59]Give a gift for your behavior [04:55.12] [04:55.84]A fleeting chance to see a trapeze [05:02.75] [05:04.30]Swinger high as any savior [05:08.29]But please remember me my misery [05:15.44] [05:16.79]And how it lost me all I wanted [05:20.31] [05:20.83]Those dogs that love the rain and chasing trains [05:28.59] [05:29.70]The colored birds above there running [05:33.70]In circles round the well and where it spells [05:40.75] [05:42.45]On the wall behind St Peter [05:46.18]So bright on cinder gray in spray paint [05:53.46] [05:55.20]Who the hell can see forever [05:58.54] [05:59.07]And please remember me seldomly [06:06.13] [06:07.79]In the car behind the carnival [06:11.70]My hand between your knees you turn from me [06:19.60] [06:20.35]And said the trapeze act was wonderful [06:24.61]But never meant to last the clowns that passed [06:32.52] [06:33.23]Saw me just come up with anger [06:37.05]When it filled with circus dogs the parking lot [06:44.52] [06:46.11]Had an element of danger [06:49.00] [06:49.71]So please remember me finally [06:57.06] [06:58.53]And all my uphill clawing [07:02.50]My dear but if I make the Pearly Gates [07:10.62] [07:11.49]I'll do my best to make a drawing [07:14.66] [07:15.23]Of God and Lucifer a boy and girl [07:23.12] [07:23.99]An angel kissing on a sinner [07:27.28] [07:28.44]A monkey and a man a marching band [07:35.88] [07:36.89]All around the frightened trapeze swinger [07:40.90] [07:41.41]Nah nah nah [07:45.40] [07:46.42]Nah nah nah [07:49.16] [07:49.74]Nah nah nah