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   Were always done in such a hurry      And please, remember me that 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   Calling passers-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   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   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 their running   In circles around 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 turned 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   I'll do my best to make a drawing   Of God and Lucifer, a boy and girl   An angel kissing on a sinner   A monkey and a man, a marching band   All around a frightened trapeze swinger