The Trapeze Swinger

[Intro]
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[Chorus]
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Please,   remember me      happily
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By the rosebush 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

[Verse 1]
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Your house beneath the hill
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And up until     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

[Chorus]
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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
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That the pearly gates
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Had such eloquent graffiti    

[Verse 2]
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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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Were always done in such a hurry   

[Chorus]
And please,
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   remember me      that Halloween
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Making fools of all the neighbors
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Our fa   ces painted white
By midnight,
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     we'd forgotten one another

[Verse 3]
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And when    the morning came      I was ashamed
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Allthough now it seems so      silly
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That season left the world      and then returned
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Now you're lit up   by the city    

[Solo 1]
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[Chorus]
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Please,   remember me      mistakenly
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On the window of the tallest tower Ca
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lling passersby      but much too high
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To see the empty road at happy hour Gleam

[Verse 4]
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and resonate,      just like the gates
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Around the holy kingdom With words    like "Lost and
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found"      and "Don't look down"
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"Someone save   temptation"

[Chorus]
Please,
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   remember me      as in the dream
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We had as rugburned babies
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Among   the fallen trees      and fast asleep
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Aside the lions and the ladies

[Verse 5]
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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

[Chorus]
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But please,   remember me,
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      my misery
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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

[Verse 6]
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In circles around the well      and where it spells
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On the wall behind St. Peter
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In black,    on cinder gray,
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      in spray paint
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"Who the hell can see forever?" 

[Solo 2]
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[Chorus]
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Please,   remember me      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 turned from me
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And said, "The trapeze act was wonderful

[Verse 7]
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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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And it filled    with circus dogs,
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      the parking lot
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Had an element of danger

[Chorus]
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Please,   remember me      finally
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And all my uphill clawing My dear,
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   but if I make      the pearly gates
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I'll do my best to make a drawing

[Verse 8]
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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 a  frightened trapeze swinger

[Outro]
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