[ti:Passing Afternoon (Demo)] [ar:Iron & Wine] [al:Our Endless Numbered Days (Deluxe Edition)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Passing Afternoon (Demo) - Iron & Wine [00:00.11]Lyrics by:Sam Beam [00:00.22]Composed by:Sam Beam [00:00.33]There are times that walk from you [00:05.78]Like some passing afternoon [00:12.03]Summer warmed the open window of her honeymoon [00:21.77]And she chose a yard to burn [00:26.95]But the ground remembers her [00:33.15]Wooden spoons her children stir her Bougainvillea blooms [00:42.70]There are things that drift away [00:47.91]Like our endless numbered days [00:54.00]Autumn blew the quilt right off the perfect bed she made [01:03.45]And she's chosen to believe [01:08.59]In the hymns her mother sings [01:14.67]Sunday pulls it's children from their piles of fallen leaves [01:24.09]There are sailing ships that pass [01:29.22]All our bodies in the grass [01:35.23]Springtime calls her children 'til she let's them go at last [01:44.67]And she's chosen where to be [01:49.80]Though she's lost her wedding ring [01:55.90]Somewhere near her misplaced jar of Bougainvillea seeds [02:05.35]There are things we can't recall [02:10.52]Blind as night that finds us all [02:16.62]Winter tucks her children in her fragile China dolls [02:25.96]But my hands remember hers [02:31.18]Rolling 'round the shaded ferns [02:37.06]Naked arms her secrets still like songs I'd never learned [02:46.29]There are names across the sea [02:51.47]Only now I do believe [02:57.47]Sometimes with the windows closed she'll sit and think of me [03:06.76]But she'll mend his tattered clothes [03:11.86]And they'll kiss as if they know [03:17.67]A baby sleeps in all our bones so scared to be alone