[Verse]
             
Please,remembe

    
r me
       
Happily
             
By the rose bu

           
sh laughing
             
With bruises o

         
n my chin
             
The time when


              
We counted eve

             
ry black car p


assing
            
Your house ben

          
eath the hill
           
And up until


             
Someone caught

           
 us in the kit


chen
            
With maps, a m

         
ountain range
           
A piggy bank


             
A vision too r

            
emoved to ment


ion, but
             
Please, rememb

   
er me
      
Fondly
             
I heard from s

              
omeone you're 

       
still pretty
             
And then,they 

           
went on to say
              
That the pearl

       
y gates
             
Had some eloqu

     
ent graffiti
            
Like 'We'll me

         
et again'
              
And 'Fuck the 

    
man'
             
And 'Tell my m

             
other not to w


orry'
             
And angels wit

         
h their gray
          
Handshakes


             
Were always do

              
ne in such a h


urry, and
             
Please, rememb

     
er me
            
At Halloween


             
Making fools o

          
f all the neig


hbors
             
Our faces pain

         
ted white
           
By midnight


             
We'd forgotten

     
 one another
            
And when the m

            
orning came
             
I was ashamed


             
Only now it se

        
ems so silly
            
That season le

             
ft the world
              
And then retur

    
ned
              
And now you're

             
 lit up by the

    
 city


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[Verse]
             
Please, rememb

     
er me
          
Mistakenly


             
In the window 

         
of the tallest

       
 tower call
              
Then pass us b

 
y
              
But much too h


igh
             
To see the emp

           
ty road at Hap


py Hour
            
Leave and reso

     
nate
              
Just like the 

     
gates
             
Around the hol

        
y kingdom
            
With words lik

             
e 'Lost and Fo

              
und' and 'Don'

        
t Look Down'
              
And 'Someone S

       
ave Temptation

', and
             
Please, rememb

     
er me
              
As in the drea

 
m
             
We had as rug-

        
burned babies
             
Among the fall

        
en trees
              
And fast aslee

 
p
             
Aside the lion

          
s and the ladi


es
            
That called yo

              
u what you lik

 
e
              
And even might


             
Give a gift fo

        
r your behavio

r
            
A fleeting cha

           
nce to see
         
A trapeze
             
Swing as high 

        
as any savior,

 but
             
Please, rememb

     
er me
         
My misery
             
And how it los

            
t me all I wan


ted
             
Those dogs tha

              
t love the rai

 
n
              
And chasing tr

    
ains
             
The colored bi

              
rds above ther

  
e running
            
In circles rou

           
nd the well
              
And where it s

     
pells
             
On the wall be

     
hind St. Peter

's
            
So bright with

            
 cinder gray
              
And spray pain

 
t
             
'Who the hell 

         
can see foreve

r?’


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[Verse]
             
Please, rememb

     
er me
        
Seldomly
             
In the car beh

         
ind the carniv

al
             
My hand betwee

            
n your knees
              
You turn from 

  
me
              
And said 'The 

             
trapeze act wa

   
s wonderful
            
But never mean

         
t to last'
              
The clown that

       
 passed
             
Saw me just co

           
me up with ang


er
            
When it filled

              
 with circus d

    
ogs
              
The parking lo

 
t
             
Had an element

    
 of danger, so
             
Please, rememb

     
er me
       
Finally
             
And all my uph

    
ill clawing
             
My dear,but if

       
 I make
              
The pearly gat

  
es
             
I’ll do my bes

             
t to make a dr


awing
            
Of God and Luc

    
ifer
              
A boy and girl


             
An angel kissi

        
ng on a sinner
             
A monkey and a

    
 man
              
A marching ban

  
d
             
All around the

            
 frightened tr


apeze swinger


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