Gregory Alan Isakov – The Trapeze Swinger (Guitar)

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Please,remember me

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Happily

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By the rose bush laughing

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With bruises on my chin

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The time when

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We counted every black car passing

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Your house beneath the hill

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And up until

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Someone caught us in the kitchen

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With maps, a mountain range

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A piggy bank

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A vision too removed to mention, but

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Please, remember me

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Fondly

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I heard from someone you're still pretty

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And then,they went on to say

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That the pearly gates

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Had some eloquent graffiti

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Like 'We'll meet again'

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And 'Fuck the man'

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And 'Tell my mother not to worry'

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And angels with their gray

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Handshakes

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Were always done in such a hurry, and

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Please, remember me

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At Halloween

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Making fools of all the neighbors

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Our faces painted white

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By midnight

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We'd forgotten one another

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And when the morning came

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I was ashamed

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Only now it seems so silly

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That season left the world

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And then returned

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And now you're lit up by the city

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Please, remember me

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Mistakenly

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In the window of the tallest tower call

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Then pass us by

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But much too high

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To see the empty road at Happy Hour

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Leave and resonate

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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', and

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Please, remember me

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As in the dream

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We had as rug-burned babies

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Among the fallen trees

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And fast asleep

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Aside the lions and the ladies

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That called you what you like

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And even might

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Give a gift for your behavior

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A fleeting chance to see

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A trapeze

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Swing as high as any savior, but

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Please, remember me

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My misery

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And how it lost me all I wanted

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Those dogs that love the rain

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And chasing trains

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The colored birds above there running

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In circles round the well

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And where it spells

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On the wall behind St. Peter's

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So bright with cinder gray

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And spray paint

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'Who the hell can see forever?’

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Please, remember me

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Seldomly

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In the car behind the carnival

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My hand between your knees

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You turn from me

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And said 'The trapeze act was wonderful

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But never meant to last'

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The clown that passed

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Saw me just come up with anger

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When it filled with circus dogs

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The parking lot

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Had an element of danger, so

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Please, remember me

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Finally

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And all my uphill clawing

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My dear,but if I make

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The pearly gates

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I’ll do my best to make a drawing

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Of God and Lucifer

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A boy and girl

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An angel kissing on a sinner

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A monkey and a man

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A marching band

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All around the frightened trapeze swinger