The Trapeze Swinger Lyrics

The Trapeze Swinger

Please remember me happily, by the rosebush 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 to remove dimensions, 



but please remember me fondly. 



I heard from someone you’re still pretty and then they 



went on to say that the pearly gates had some 



eloquent graffiti like we’ll meet again and fuck the man 



and tell my mother not to worry and angels with their 



gray and shades but all is 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 seasons left the world and then returned 



and 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 to high to see 



the empty road at happy hour gleam and resonate 



just like the gates around the holy kingdom 



with words I’ve lost and found and don’t look down 



did someone save temptation and please remember me 



as in the dream we had as rug burn babies among 



the fallen trees and fast asleep beside the lions and 



the ladies that called you what you like and even mine 



give a gift for your behavior of lead and chance to see 



a trapeze swinger high as in a savior but 



please remember me, my misery and how it lost me all I wanted 



those dogs that loved the rain and chasing trains 



the colored birds above they’re running in circles round the well 



and where it smells on the wall behind St. Peter so bright 



on cinder gray and spray paint. who the hell can see forever? 



and please remember me soundly in the car behind the carnival 



my hand between your knees you turn from me said 



the trapeze act was wonderfulbut now were meant to last 



the clowns that passed saw me just come up with anger 



when it filled the circus dolls the parking lot had an element of danger 



so please remember me finally and all my uphill crawling 



my dear but 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 fractured trapeze swinger.