Iron & Wine: The trapeze swinger

Ooh, ooh, ooh Please remember me Happily By the rose bush laughing With bruises on my chin A time when We counted every black car Passing your house Beneath the hill And up until Someone caught us in the kitchen With maps, a mountain range A piggy bank A vision to removed to mention But please remember me Fondly I heard from someone you're still pretty And then they went on to say That the Pearly Gate Has some eloquent graffiti Like "Well meet again" And "Fuck the man" "Tell my mother not to worry" And angels with their great handshakes But always done in such a hurry And please remember me At Halloween Making fools of all the neighbors Our faces painted white By midnight wed forgotten one another And when the morning came I was ashamed Only now it seems so silly That season left the world And then returned But now you're lit up by the city So please remember me Mistakenly In the window of the tallest tower Call and passes by But much too high To see the empty road at happy hour Gleam and resonate Just like the gates Around the holy kingdom With words like "Lost and found" And "Dont look down" And "Someone save temptation" And please remember me As in the dream We had as rug burn babies Upon the fallen trees And fast asleep Beside the lions and the ladies That called you what you like And even might Give a gift for your behavior Of lead and chance to see A trapeze swinger high as any savior But please remember me My misery And how it lost me all I wanted Those dogs that love the rain And chasing trains The colored birds above They're running in circles Round the well And where it spells On the wall behind Saint Peter So bright on cinder-gray In spray paint "Who the hell can see forever?" And please remember me Seldomly In the car behind the carnival My hand between your knees You turn from me Said the trapeze act was wonderful But never meant to last The clowns that pass Saw me just come up with anger When it filled the circus domes The parking lot Had an element of danger So please remember me Finally And all my uphill clawing My dear But if I make The Pearly Gates Do my best to make a drawing Of God and Lucifer A boy and girl An angel kissing on a sinner A monkey and man A marching band All around the frightened trapeze swinger