Please remember me, happily
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By the rosebush laughing
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With bruises on my chin, the time when
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We counted every black car passing
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Your house beneath the hill and up until
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Someone caught us in the kitchen
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With maps, a mountain range, a piggy bank
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A vision too removed to mention
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But please remember me, fondly
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I heard from someone you're still pretty
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And then they went on to say that the Pearly Gates
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Had such eloquent graffiti
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Like 'We'll meet again' and 'Fuck the man'
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And 'Tell my mother not to worry'
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And angels with their great handshakes
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But always done in such a hurry
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And please remember me, at Halloween
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Making fools of all the neighbors
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Our faces painted white, by midnight
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We'd forgotten one another
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And when the morning came I was ashamed
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Only now it seems so silly
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That season left the world and then returned
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And now you're lit up by the city
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So please remember me, mistakenly
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In the window of the tallest tower
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Call, then pass us by but much too high
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To see the empty road at happy hour
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Gleam and resonate just like the gates
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Around the Holy Kingdom
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With words like, 'Lost and found' and 'Don't look down'
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And 'Someone save temptation'
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And please remember me as in the dream
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We had as rug burned babies
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Among the fallen trees and fast asleep
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Beside the lions and the ladies
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That called you what you like and even might
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Give a gift for your behavior
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A fleeting chance to see a trapeze
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Swinger high as any savior
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But please remember me, my misery
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And how it lost me all I wanted
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Those dogs that love the rain and chasing trains
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The colored birds above their running
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In circles round the well and where it spells
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On the wall behind St. Peter
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So bright on cinder gray in spray paint
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'Who the hell can see forever?'
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And please remember me, seldomly
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In the car behind the carnival
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My hand between your knees, you turn from me
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And said the trapeze act was wonderful
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But never meant to last, the clowns that passed
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Saw me just come up with anger
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When it filled with circus dogs, the parking lot
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Had an element of danger
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So please remember me, finally
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And all my uphill clawing
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My dear, but if I make the Pearly Gates
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I'll do my best to make a drawing
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Of God and Lucifer, a boy and girl
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An angel kissin' on a sinner
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A monkey and a man, a marching band
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All around the frightened trapeze swinger
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Nah nah nah
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Nah nah nah
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Nah nah nah
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The Trapeze Swinger
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Iron & Wine |