Iron & Wine // This Solemn Day
Touch me while we both have hands
We won’t keep them very long
Watch the window curtain blowing in the breeze
Keep your blessed memories
It’s not what we talk about
When the table gossip turns
Someday you might find a circle of my friends
And they’ll cry when you walk in
The grass is high on grandpa’s farm
But he’s not there to cut it down
Grey cat walking through the yard
Stops short and turns around as if he heard a sound
And we’ll forget this solemn day
We’ll be always young again
But I’ll remember him, the one who’s left us now
And hold you close as you’ll allow
Iron & Wine // Minor Piano Keys
Iron & Wine // Ab’s Song
and if i die at 23
won’t you bury me
in the sunshine?
please let me know
that you’re still mine.
though i’m gone,
my love for you
is, oh, so strong.
and when the grass grows over me,
let me know
you still love me.
never put nobody else
above me.
then i’ll know
my love for you
will always grow.
This is, to me, one of the greatest songs ever written. Watch the sun set and listen to this, it’s hard not to reconsider your perspective. Life is so short..
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
