Blackest Dreams and Pearl-studded Lullabies

Someone I loved introduced me to this song "The Trapeeze swinger" by Iron and Wine, then left my life. Someone new came along and the song just stuck. Please enjoy

We were young, you pressed flowers while I 

attempted poetry. It was a long time ago, almost 

like another life I never lived. You looked at me 

with the devil's eyes and said, "You can be 

the angel kissin' on a sinner and I'll be the boy 

on the porch steps drawing the map that'll get us 

out of here someday."

"It'll be harmless fun," you smiled, but you didn't know 

what fun is back then. You were the angel kissin' on me. 

I guess that makes me the sinner, I was hardly in high school 

and already tainted by lust, painted black, and splattered 

with red. But I didn't tell you because I knew what you'd say. 

We were young, you pressed flowers while I 

attempted poetry. Hiding in a red leather diary. 

If only you could see now the secrets that pages made 

of stardust could keep when a person's young but not free. 

I remember the way you used stones to write my name 

on the beach and hope to etch my face in the snow. 

That was when being in love was easy - all you had to do 

was smile and say the words everyone else was saying. 

when kissing was cute and running away together was sweet.

It was a simple time, long ago, when you saw my wings 

as silk and made me a halo of daisies. We were young, 

you pressed flowers while I wrote you poetry. 

We were young, you pressed flowers while I 

wrote you poetry. Line after line of pure emotion you 

would never understand. Words you were too innocent 

to comprehend, meanings I was just barely corrupt enough 

to pen out for the world. You pressed flowers that waited 

between pages of stardust for years that later became 

decorations for the cover of my novel. The one I dedicated 

to you for never being a first, but for loving me enough to 

stick around anyway. 

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inspired by the song "Trapeeze Swinger" I can't remember what band it's from though.