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 But always done in such a hurry And please remember me, at 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 Call, then pass us 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 Beside 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 there running In circles round 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 turn from me And said the trapeze act was wonderful But never meant to last, the clowns 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 kissin' on a sinner A monkey and a man, a marching band All around the frightened trapeze swinger
I’m so sorry for your loss Of your daughter. I pray for you to have comfort and peace in your heart and soul. There is no name for the parents who loss children along this path in life. Please know I’m thinking of you 💗
I’m so sorry, I know that means nothing (trust me), but every ounce of love in my heart is all yours for as long as you need it. Losing children is a different type of hurt (I won’t compare myself to you but I’ve had 2 miscarriages 2nd term, I really know it’s not the same) and if there is anything in the world that can help, it’s music, and people. So I will always be here!
Since a lot of people don't seem to catch the song's references, the imagery and metaphor of the trapeze swinger comes from Wim Wender's Der Himmel über Berlin, also known by its English title, Wings of Desire. The movie folllows an angel who, unseen, looks over humanity and falls in love with a circus performer in Berlin. Before the circus departs for the year, he chooses to fall and take a mortal form so he can experience love, tragedy, and heartbreak. The film was also the inspiration for the movie City of Angels, starring Nicolas Cage.
When things get too awful--and let's face it, that's a lot of the time--this is my eight minute vacation from the world. This song plugs so readily into universal human experience. It's transcendent.
This is so beautiful - “That season left the world and then returned, and now you’re lit up by the city” I’m a painter and often listen to a single song on repeat throughout the whole time I paint it, then name it that song. I have a beautiful painting named “The Trapeze Swinger” ❤
Every time I listen to this guy he makes me cry. His music is so damned beautiful. I think he is up there with John Prine, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen as one of the greatest singer/storyteller/poets ever...
I'll never understand how people can see this song as him just singing about "one person".. This song is about an entire life. I think it would be a sad life if it all was summed up as only one person.. We all had friends, crushes, mentors, etc who helped shape our lives..
May you feel the love and peace you deserve. You are obviously a kind soul. People like you don't get enough love, so consider these words as my gift to you.
I lost my youngest son to suicide November 2020 This song resonates some of his life when he was a youngster and early adolescence he fell in love early on and was denied all the Love he felt for his Love by her parents . His first born son was riled from his life . He continued on to become amazing g ER nurse . He found a new life in CA continuing his Nursing and fell in Love again. and had a beautiful daughter and a promise of life good bad in sickness or health, and that was once again denied to him. He absolutely loved his children. So this song resonates so much of his life for me . I will never get over loosing him to taking his life . The unending questions I feel him everyday with all I have . He rests I. Gods hands now never forgotten. ❤
This is the song that made me realize I don't want to live in a world without the love of my life, to get off my Trapeze and ask her to marry me. The thought of living in a state of "what if" is horrifying, And looking back for eternity on what could have been is so beautifully heartbreaking. Thank you Iron and Wine and Gregory Alan Isakov. I owe you one.
Surprise! I get to marry the love of my life on April 9th, 2024. Thank you all for the support. If anyone's seeing Gregory this fall in Kansas City I will see you there!
@Lindsay Cisco I like the original too, (of course since it's brilliantly written, Sam Beam is great) but I honestly like this version much better because I think Gregory's voice fits the song and his guitar strumming gives it much more emotion. It's just so beautiful knowing he's talking about a girl he shared memories with but seriously fucked up their relationship and he knows it, asking her to remember him 8 differnet times in 8 different verses all with metaphorical references to their relationship and all the amazing times they had together. It's just so nostalgic, and knowing what this song really means just makes me appreciate life, the good times, and just how beautiful everything is too. If anyone else is reading this, and you don't like this song, that's completely fine. Everyone has different tastes. But I hope that you can realize like I've come to in the last few years that honestly everything is just simply beautiful and to be grateful for all the friends, family, encouraging people, and everything and everyone you have in life, because it's all worth something. Appreciate what you have now, because you might lose it someday. Thank you for reading this, and I wish you all the best of luck in life. -Noah
This song just came on randomly and I instantly though, “Shit, I am not ready for these emotions today.” Most brutal song I will ever love…to dread. It’s like that nasty medicine you had to take as a kid, “so you will feel better”. Required listening for anyone thinking about dating again. I passed. Now I know what love was always supposed to be. So much better. -Some old union plumber in the Mid-West USA. HANG IN THERE, IT DOES GET BETTER.
I have heard this amazing version of this song countless times... yet it still rips me to pieces every time no matter what mood I am in. It's beautiful, it's haunting, it's melancholy, it's hopeful, it's solemn, it's angry, it's gentle ... it's simply incredible. Thank your Mr. Isakov.
sitting in an office in northern india, on a monday afternoon, doing some drudgery work, and this song just makes me think of driving across the country, roll down the windows, breathe in the salty air, let the wind kiss my cheeks, ray ban and bit of sun tan, a delicate press of foot on the gas, drive drive and drive, oh please remember me happily.
The amazing thing about this song is that it's one that touches the listener in different ways, but noone knows this song is about a guy that committed suicide and all the "please remember me" verses are him in purgatory writing about people he's loved and knew in his life.. this song hits hard and always will, never will I listen to this song and not cry 🕊😭 its such a masterpiece
Sometimes my mind overtakes my thoughts and suddenly ending it all seems to be a valid option. Then I remember my girl and my family. They need me so I keep on going.
We all need you, everyone that feels the same. Hang in there with me big bro. We're gonna ride this wave till we hit the shore, and find our piece of Paradise. Sure wouldnt be the same without you.
This is a beautiful picture. This is a beautiful song. And based upon a quick viewing your channel, you seem to have a beautiful passion for sharing music you love. Thank you for this!
Holy shit, thanks for saying that. I started the song over and read. Its unbelievable. Whoever wrote that deserves an award. It was like a 10,000 page book writen in a few paragraphs...
If you don’t like this song, you may be like me, loving GAI for his amazing melodic songs and this one seems out of place among them. But when you listen carefully to the poem and let the melody give the rhythm to the reading you will be blessed to hear what was meant when it was conceived, a poem of powerful nostalgia and perhaps a warning to the few young wise ladies and men who learn from the mistakes of others. And to those of us who are older and can relate to the experience he shares with us in this poem it may shatter us and when we finish weeping for what was lost may we determine to not waste one more day on the trapeze before our circus ends.
Well written. Sometimes this life feels like its full of wonder, other times an endless string of misunderstandings...Truthfully, it's both. I'm now 70 yrs in this body, and after 3 years of trying to figure out how I stayed forty plus years in a one way relationship,It ended at last with her succumbing to cancer in confusion and fear. She wasn't my "one".. not even close. My bitterness is somewhat cooled by the simple fact that it was the life I chose. And there really isn't anyone to blame....Apologies for the venting. Songs like this get one thinking.
Beautiful song...Sam and Sarah Beam are very kind folks...Sam was a professor at FL state...i think... I pulled on his beard...he just grinned at me...I talked with Sarah all night.... beautiful art...more beautiful people
Regardless if you believe in God or not, the fact remains that Love is the Supreme Ethic in life. Everything we do resolves around what we love. This Is God's gift to everyone of us, how do we accept this gift and gift back in which God gave us. Simple Love God with all your heart and soul and Love your neighbors as you would Love yourself. This world would be a much better place. Streets turns into blocks, blocks turn into cities and cities turn in to Provinces/States which turn into Nations which turns into Global peace. God's Word.
@@chasie5928 good try but you totally missed my point. LMAO 😭 Only incels make up weirdly romantic stories about making love in the woods. Real people just have sex, and don't have to make up stories about it.
What a wonderfully refreshing song, different from most all others of the same genre. No repetition here! So much great music is out there, but sadly playing the same verse over and over.This guy sure doesn’t have that problem.
I wish I had somebody I could say this to... That's my biggest fear is that I go without anybody to say goodbye to and the worst part is, that's how it is.🙄 I'm going to listen to this and cry and be alone in my perpetual loneliness and contemplate giving up... That sounds really nice... Why am I still here?
I love this song. On the first couple listens, it definitely got some emotion out of me. Especially the ending. But reading your description of the song??? My friend, I bawled my eyes out. Especially with the song in the background. Regardless if that analysis of the song is from the author or a fan, it doesn’t really matter. Someone came up with it and it was beautiful, that’s all that matters.
When I close my eyes my past is on the horizon, it is not getting any closer although the rising sun shines on it favourably, makes things seem more significant than they are. I am 11 years old sitting beside my uncle on a high stool the smell of porter igniting new experiences in my nostrils. the cousins and my brothers are out the back playing pool but I want to listen to men talk of the days trade and tomorrows hurling. It is a pleasant full memory, the kind we rarely hold onto and it reminds me I have grown up quicker than the weeds in a widows garden. There is no soundtrack for those times. This song helps.
Beautiful comment...Written by a man who can see his reflection, behind and ahead. Feeling the textures , because he knows that his memories, even if polished and pruned, are moments that never truly end. Little miracles, big tragedies, all part of a life. And movement... always movement...
Sam Beam wrote this song, guys. This is an Iron & Wine song. Isaac’s cover is gorgeous, no doubt, but a lot of you are crediting his genius songwriting, and I think that’s a bit unfair to Sam. Just sayin’….
My favorite of the many poems that this song inspired me to write: I wonder if the world will carry these little memories past the point where we shall cease to be. (1.) like the bite of your father's rosebush weeping pinks down the palisade bittersweetly his girly flytrap weed he always called it or 'Miriam' after your mother passed one February bleak whispering a prayer to repay the earth from which she'd sprouted into beauty with bloodlet fingertips, welling eyes and a head held high ''you won't be rid of me that easily.'' (2.) the graveyard of rainbows incomplete which you mistook for a dream framed so perfectly by the window of the airplane that shot us back to New Orleans. (3.) the clementine sunrise stumbling down the canopy painting morning dew into diamonds worn by the spiderwebs between those static storm clouds slowly pried unstuck by summer breeze (4.) how those crimson bugs so small but twice so clever spelled mayday in morse code crawling round Sam's dancing hands with no intention of abandoning ship leaving that vessel of wreathed flesh that her doctors had named Huntington's chorea christened not with champagne but earthquakes and then set adrift into the vacuum of dysphoria to tremble forever just another ghost in god's phantasmagoria. (5.) what a thumbnail moon after lion's mane rainfall would smell like to me (talcum powder, a field of irises, rebirth and nicotine.) (6.) and how death that abhorrent monster lean revealed itself to be just a ballet of roots returning to the seed. - Ben Heart.
It's a little weird of OP to claim that this song is by Gregory Alan Isakov when they clearly spent a while looking it up online so they must have known this is a cover...
Love His Music His Songs are like small fortunes we all have shared in one way or another,spoken words from an experience this man shares into the universe to sooth our beings in relation to everyone of his words in song./|\£∆¥€\|/ all whom finds these words from a root to those whom combine together creating the infamous TREEOFLIFE
not laconic, but it's an epitaph. john keats just said. "here lies one whose name was writ in water." if there was going to be a stone for me, I'd ask them to write these lyrics on it with an indelible marker. but since there won't be an engraved stone, lord may i be satisfied with just the stone.
@@bubby8825 but credit where credit is do is the right thing to do. It also allows people to be less ignorant of the fact that it is a cover, perhaps seek out the great original version, support Iron & Wine (Sam Beam), and discover his other great songs and collaborations.
Lost good friend over the holidays, n tho it was not sexual.. very significant to my life/growth, we went down rabbit hole ..it’s got me in all metaphors n times good & bad!! I love you forever Steven! And I miss you Already, enjoy ur journey, you uncover sweetheart! I’m so fucking sorry! ~P 🤍🔥✨✌️
