The Trapeze Swinger (Iron & Wine Cover)
My favorite song from my favorite artist - really deep lyrics. Truly haunting stuff, from the "Such Great Heights" single albumCapo 3C/G/F/C/GPlease remember me happily by the rosebush laughingWith bruises on my chin, the time when, we counted every black car passingYour house, beneath the hills, and up until, someone caught us in the kitchenWith maps, a mountain range, a piggy bank, a vision too removed to mention...Please remember me fondly, I heard from someone you're still prettyAnd then they went on to say that the pearly gates had such eloquent grafittiLike "we will meet again" and "fuck the man" and "tell my mother not to worry"The angels with their gray handshakes, always done in such a hurry...Please remember me, on Halloween, making fools of all the neighborsOur faces painted white, by midnight we'd forgotten one anotherAnd when the morning came I felt ashamed, only now it seems so sillyThat season left the world and then returned but now you're lit up by the city...Please remember me mistakenly in the window of the tallest towerCall and pass us by but much too high to see the empty road at happy hourGleam and resonate just like the gates around the holy kingdomWith words like "lost and found" and "don't look down" and "someone save temptation..."Please remember me as in the dream we had as rug-burned babiesAmong the fallen trees but fast asleep aside the lions and the ladiesWho call you what you like and even might give a gift for your behaviorA fleeting chance to see the trapeze swinger high as any savior...Please remember me, my misery, and how it lost me all I wantedThe dogs that love the rain and chasing trains, the colored birds above their runningIn circles 'round the well, near where it spells on the wall behind St. PetersSo bright on cinder gray with spraypaint "who the hell can see forever?"Please remember me seldomly in the car behind the carnivalMy hand between your knees you turned from me and said the trapeze act was wonderfulBut never meant to last, the clowns that passed saw me just come up with angerAnd filled with circus dogs, the parking lot, had an element of danger...Please remember me finally and all my uphill clawingMy dear, if I make the pearly gates I'll do my best to make a drawingOf God and Lucifer, a boy and girl, an angel kissing on a sinnerA monkey and a man, a marching band, all around a frightened trapeze swinger