Iron and Wine - The Trapeze Swinger 

Halloween parties, piggy banks, planning childhood adventures on a map and counting cars passing by - all these little pedestrian moments that seem to mean nothing, but ultimately make up a life. What a weird, amazing dance we’re all part of. I’m 21 years old and am regularly brought to incredulous smiling laughter at the prospect of seeing where it all goes. Peace and love.

"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'" is one of the best lines anybody's ever written, I think

the hardest line for me is realizing "tell my mother not to worry" is what's written on the _outside_ of the gates, from the one that didn't make it into Heaven. Mother's inside: hopefully someone delivers that message to her

My dad recently passed away and he wanted this song performed at the funeral. I will always cry whenever I hear this song.

Every time I hear this song I always start to tear up when the vocal harmony kicks in and he sings "Please remember me, my misery, and how it lost me all I wanted"

"Remember me, my misery And how it lost me all I wanted..." Hit me like a sledgehammer. How does this man write such beautiful lines?

absolute masterpiece. it paints a portrait in your head of life, it's highs and lows, it's beauty and ugliness, that feeling of aimlessness and mystery; thousands of souls trying to make sense of a universe they don't fully understand. Those brave trapeze swingers daring to live

My 34 yr old brother requested this played at his funeral. He passed from cancer in 2018. Most beautiful song but breaks my heart every time I hear it. You can actually feel the breaking...does anyone else get that?

this was the favorite song of a long lost friend. Ray, if you're somehow out there, i miss ya buddy. our friendship was not meant to be but i wish we could have parted on better terms. much love to you, friend, and i hope you're doing well

I lost my Dad 2009 and I was 9, it hurt and everytime I play this song it reminds me of him and it gives me a sense of healing 🥺🥺. I miss you Dad and I love you ❤️

I lost someone very dear to me about 2 years ago. Every time I hear this song, it's like hearing him saying to me "please remember me" Always.

My girlfriend showed me this song the first night we ever spent together. It brings back every memory of her and makes me think of how much I love her. I'm gonna marry this girl. This song will play at my wedding and my funeral.

No one can claim to know what the lyrics really mean besides the man who wrote them. It's a fantastic and deeply personal love letter. But we can all relate to some lines in one way or another. Beautiful song.

A true beauty. As you get older, experience more, the more this song calms you down and makes you think. Enjoy your time. It’s precious.

On the on-ramp, you said "If you love me, you will listen to this song" And I could tell that you were serious So I didn't tell you you were driving the wrong way On the interstate until the song was done You felt like an idiot adding an hour to the drive But it gave us more time to embarrass ourselves Tellin' stories we wouldn't tell anyone else

A poetry of pictures with a melody so haunting, complete with a hypnotic groove that freezes time. Beautiful, well done Samuel. One of my favorites.

9minutes of poetry, warm arrangements and a voice so calm... complete escape from these strange times 😞

I have my own “Trapeze Swinger” we were good friends when we’re younger, star crossed lovers in our adolescence, but we too sadly were never meant to last and he left this world in 2019

I miss you so much geebah I wake up every morning and have remind myself you are gone I go to the last place I saw you I sit there I don't care how many people see I rock back and forth and just cry I don't know what else to do

one of the saddest, most beautiful songs i've heard in 42 years...

❤❤❤❤ this is one of the songs I want played on my funeral ❤❤❤❤ beautiful song Update: My pops too loved this song and wanted it played. After a year of fighting. My pops joins my little brother and grandparents and many loved ones ❤ I miss you 🥰 pops. I’ll never forget our love for music ❤

The fact that this is arguably the most powerful set of lyrics ever written in history, combined with the fact that the song is over 9 minutes long truly shows how absolutely talented this dude is. How he wrote this, and is able to remember it live is a damn miracle itself. Borderline the greatest song ever written.

Interesting to read how people have favourite parts of the lyrics. My heart always jumps in my chest when I hear: "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'" Especially "never meant to last" ... to me, it says something about learning to let go *especially* of the things we love and that we cling to. I might be completely off here, but I prefer to understand it that way.

My Patrick learned this song and played on my birthday; he passed nearly two years ago. This song is lyrical poetry. And will forever remind me of my gorgeous human.

Crazy to think that I first started listening to him in 2006 sophomore year when I was 15.. I’m 30 now married with 3 kids... crazy to think about

"Parting ways.. Like you're not headed that way soon.. Like the student has now become the incorrigible and the master now the inconsolable. Rice grows, we grow. The barren bush spots the bird faster. The fallen tree makes a fire. Warmth chasing the gripping cold away. The choking smoke. The wrecking sadness. The last straw sharing a glass of milk. Begging for mercy. God isn't a genie. Mankind was a compound word." ,dan'

This is masterpiece, This is love, This is freedom, This is magic , This melody is key of happiness.

they deserve so much more for the music they create, beautifully nostalgic

The Trapeze Swinger Iron & Wine 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 gray Handshakes Were 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 Leave 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 Swing as 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's So bright with cinder gray And 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 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 Do my best to make a drawing Of G-d and Lucifer A boy and girl An angel kissing on a sinner A monkey and a man A marching band All around the frightened trapeze swingers

Hanna Cline this song is for you baby girl. I know you are still around us, blessing us with your grace and laughter. Such a beautiful angel you were baby. I will see you sooner than later love...

This is the type of song you appreciate when In Good Company.

Pretty sure this is the best song of all time ever.

RIP RICHARD GRAY JR. You were my first best friend, my partner in crime, my brother. Our memories warm my heart and then it breaks. You were taken too soon. Our kids should have been cousins. This song makes me think of you.

This song is everything. We need to love and care for one another. No exceptions. One world. One people. Life isn’t endless but love is. 💛😭✨

The music has a very repetetive and circular feeling but the words are hauntingly beautiful.

Hits different when it seems everything good I your life is behind you

I used to wish this song would play on my wedding day...but its looking like it will only be played at my funeral instead. ❤ beautiful

Miss you, Mom. ❤

Sam is one of the most brilliant writers, arrangers, vocalists, musicians of his time. I discovered his music in/around 2011 and have been a fan every since. He's one of the MANY great artists who thrive just below the mainstream radar. I hope to hear his evolution all my days.

This and " My mother was a Chinese trapeze artist " are my favorite trapeze themed songs ever

This song is beautiful.. I heard it years ago..I fell asleep during the movie ..In Good Company...I was awoken by this song and I felt like I was in heaven..I went nuts the next morning tracking it...

It's not often that you get to fall fast and hard in love with a song, but, yeah, that just happened. Thanks so much for writing this amazing song.

The most beautiful song I've ever heard

Wow. What a song.

this song makes me miss high school. unaware of what life was truly like, 11 years later and this song still cuts deeper than anything.

I see this song from a very different point of view. My mother has Altzhimers. I am so grateful she is still with us, but I miss the woman she was all the time. I'm not looking forward to the day she forgets me.

I know this is a great song because it doesn't feel like it's almost 10 minutes long.

I want this played at my funeral. What an absolutely hauntingly beautiful song. Samuel Beam writes with the soul of a poet. ❤️

Homecoming brought me here (the perfect end to an amazing show). I had never heard it before that.

Aside from all the deep comments about love, redemption, and death, I simply just picture myself slow dancing with the love of my life to this masterpiece every time I listen to it. there's just a really romantic element to it's mellow acoustic tune and easy pace.

Rest in peace Michael Lipson, you made my childhood better and the circus more bearable. 'Til we meet again at the pearly gates.

Absolutely one of the most beautiful songs i have been honored to find in a long long time.. Please, remember me happily fondly halloween mistakenly as in the dream my misery seldomly and finally

This is prefrontal cortex understanding at its finest. If information and communication are not constantly updated, our brains typically wander and lose interest. This is why movies shoot from multiple angles. In this song, Iron and Wine presents vocal variations and/or new sounds almost EVERY 64 BEATS! This is why we can listen to it and savor it for nearly ten minutes!! 💖 #brilliant

this man has a way with songwriting that cuts directly to the point ... it's so emotionally confrontational in such a beautiful gentle and accessable way... it makes me feel like i'm not crazy or alone.. Sam Beam gets 11/10 every time. So underrated. Timeless songwriter.

Some time ago, the world lost someone special who introduced me to this song when we were younger. This is where I always go to remember her. Life is a funny little thing.

The best song ever.

This song makes life worth it. A spiritual dessert undeserved.

Such a pretty song came by it from just watching the film "Timer"

When Ed Sheeran's Afterglow says "the radio is playing Iron and Wine". I came here coz I miss em. :'(

Thank you Homecoming for reconnecting me with this.

beautiful instrumental arrangements on this version..

I saw him play this song at a chapel at Hope college, close to ten years ago. There was a blizzard that night and it was extremely cold. We stood outside the chapel for over an hour before they let us in. We got to sit in the front pew, and put our wet socks and frozen feet next to the radiator. When he sang "They went on to say that the pearly gates had some eloquent graffiti, like 'We'll meet again' and 'Fuck the man..." everyone cheered.

My goodness this song is everything!

This song takes you to many memories. I could listen over and over.

They WILL play this song at my funeral or damnit I'm not going

Man, this song is just.. serenity taking its form in sound.

HOW DO PEOPLE WRITE SUCH GOOD SHIT. SERIOUSLY.

when my body gives out, and i find myself no longer in this earth. play this song at my funeral please... and remember me!

This song is so beautiful I almost cry every time.

Coming back to Phoenix in oct! Love me some iron and wine. My wife and i got to meet Sam the morning after a show in Tucson and i had a total fan boy meltdown he shook my hand and was all "hi I'm sam" all i could come up with was "no shit" lol! Worlds nicest guy, i collected myself and he hung out and chatted for a few. One of those moments you'll remember for the rest of your life, iron and wine means quite a bit to me like a lot of people who have struggled and had music carry them through.

I just realized that this song has been in my regular rotation for 10 years. It is a refuge, be it a bright or bleak moment.

This song is like a long night of not sleeping but in a good way..............

More obscure of a reference, but the movie "In Good Company" made me fall in love with this song and Iron & Wine. I had just started college and I can still recall how that felt and the relevant scenes in this movie...all related to finding yourself / way in life. So much nostalgia...

I can listen to this song for hours.

Hands down one of the best songs ever written.

I’m 22 now and I still can’t make it through this song without crying

I found this song in highschool. I thought it was dumb I enjoyed it so I shoved it away. Now, listening to it, my heart yearns for this love. I have been cold, now I need to feel warm.

I know i'm sensitive, you don't have to tell me again, just sit with me and listen softly while I cry

Go when you need to go. Work tomorrow. Be safe and have a great week. You are loved 💓 and way too far away!

I got this song suggestion from a person on Vent and I'm gald I did, it was worth it

Was thrilled to hear this song on the “Homecoming “ soundtrack.

This song is the perfect length for some peaceful meditation batin'.

For some reason this song reminds me vividly of my best friend who passed away 5 or so years ago. I get choked up by the second verse. I'll always love and miss him so much and this song just never fails to make me cry.

I've read somewhere that no matter how skilled you are as a trapeze artist, even your smallest mistake can cost you your life.

"It's easier to be humble when not enough has shown you that enough will do and more means enough for someone else too." ,dan'

The only thing keeping me here right now. At least for this moment

"i'm crying in my coffee" , "This is the best song of all time", "I can't"

such a perfect song

My ex of 6 years passed about 3 months ago. It hasn't fully hit me yet I know, he was only 25 so we spent nearly a quarter of his life together. This song stirred up some feelings I didnt know if I was ready to confront, but know I need to. Beautiful

I want this played at my wake because, who the hell can see forever

this song is so beautiful and deep

I found this song in SoundCloud 3 years back! Such a soothing and beautiful music!

I have a particular memory with this song , it was my ex girlfriend's sweed 15 and we dance this master piece in front of everybody, that is the best memory i have

10 years ago laying in bed listening and feeling truly in love I miss u girl

And suddenly i love life for a little while

This song has become an equivalent of time. "When are you gonna be here?" "Three trapeze swingers."

this song makes me wanna go out and freaking travel, like just be outside like i used to back in my childhood days

Dammit, I was so into it then the flutes cut in and I burst out laughing. Still gets my 10/10, like, favorite, and seal of approval.

This songs takes my mind somewhere away from everything . I feel at peace listening to it ❤️

such a poetic song with so many beautiful interpretations: THANK YOU