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Currently Playing: Iron & Wine -- The Trapeze Swinger [Acoustic]

The acoustic version of "The Trapeze Swinger", by Iron & Wine, as it appears on the second track of his 2006 Sub Pop EP "Such Great Heights". Remember that 480p means higher audio quality, including left-right (stereo) tracks. Lyrics: Please, remember me, Happily By the rose bush laughing with Bruises on my chin The 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 too removed to mention And, Please, remember me, Fondly I heard from someone you're still pretty And then They went on to say That the pearly gates Have such eloquent graffiti Like, "We'll meet again," And, "Fuck the man," And, "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 We'd 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 And now you're lit up by the city And, Please, remember me, Mistakenly In the window of the tallest tower Call, Then pass us 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, "Don't look down..." And, "Someone Save Temptation." And, Please, remember me, As in the dream We had as rug-burned babies Among the fallen trees Fast asleep Aside the lions and the ladies That call you what you like And even might Give a gift for your behavior A fleeting chance to see A trapeze Swinger High as any savior And, 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 there running In circles 'round the well To where it spills On the wall behind St. Peter's 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 hands between your knees You turned from me And said, "The trapeze act was wonderful, But never meant to last." The clowns that passed Saw me just come up with anger When it filled with circus dogs The parking lot It had an element of danger And, Please, remember me, Finally And all my uphill clawing My dear, And if I make... The pearly gates I'll do my best to make a drawing Of God and Lucifer, A boy and girl, An angel kissing on a sinner, A monkey and a man, A marching band, All around a frightened trapeze swinger... Na-... Na-na...