Rainmaker

Swan Song (WIP)

An interview I found with an incredible musician named Freddy Reish

Between the Lines - Freddy Reish (2015)

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

And please, remember me, patiently,
I was still learning how to love
When the devil found my side
He asked me why 
He's never felt like he's enough

For his Father, who cast him out, to the ground
For holding pride in his volition
In his eyes, a crying scream, he said "Pray for me"
If only now I would have listened

Oh please, remember me, and 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

The Trapeze Swinger (Iron & Wine/G.A. Isakov Cover)

It's been ten years 
And I've got my new set of scars 
From broken hearts and broken arms 
From chasing after where you are 

I've cried a couple tears 
Been taking everything too far 
And running around in the dark 
Trying to finish what I couldn't start 

So who's gonna love you now 
That gravity brought you down 
Now that I'm not around 
Who's gonna love you now? 

This is where you disappear 
After playing all your favorite cards 
A father, but just on my charts 
You leave before it gets too hard 

So what are you doing here 
When everyone is at the bar 
Filling in the missing parts 
And here we are 

So who's gonna love you now 
That gravity brought you down 
Now that I'm not around 
Who's gonna love you now?

Liarus l|l

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