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• Subtlely one of the most beautiful songs

  If someone asked me for the next dance I would happily oblige. If this song started to play while we dance I think that I would be quite happy. The source of this happiness is rooted in the lyrics found in this song "trapeze singer". To be in someone's arms and have them smile into my eyes would be a gift. Yet the words show profound sadness and the longing to be remembered when you are forgotten or your loved one is disconnected from your life forever.
  
  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 too 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 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 great handshakes
  Were always done in such a hurry
  
  And please, remember me that 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
  
  So please, remember me mistakenly
  In the window of the tallest tower
  Calling passers-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 and fast asleep
  Aside the lions and the ladies
  That called 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
  
  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 their running
  In circles around the well and where it spells
  On the wall behind St. 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 turned from me
  And said, "The trapeze act was wonderful
  But never meant to last", the clown that passed
  Saw me just come up with anger
  When it filled with circus dogs, 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
  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

Wednesday June 24, 2009

.....damn it i have work in 8 minutes

Posted 6/24/2009 at 4:52 PM