The Trapeze Swinger-Iron

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