
Date of issue: 17.05.2009
Record label: Sub Pop
Song language: English
Belated Promise Ring |
Sunday morning, my Rebecca sleepin' in with me again |
There’s a kid outside the church kickin' a can |
When the cedar branches twist she turns her collar to the wind |
The weather can close the world within its hand |
And my mother says Rebecca is as stubborn as they come |
They both call to me with words I never knew |
There’s a bug inside the thimble, there’s a band-aid on her thumb |
And a pony in the river turning blue |
They say, «Time may give you more than your poor bones could ever take» |
My Rebecca says she never wants a boy |
To be barefoot on the driveway as they wave and ride away |
Then to run inside and curse the open door |
I once gave to my Rebecca a belated promise ring |
And she sold it to the waitress on a train |
I may find her by the phone but with a fashion magazine |
She may kiss me when her girlfriends leave again |
They say, «Time may give you more than your poor bones could ever take» |
I think I could never love another girl |
To be free atop a tree stump and to look the other way |
While she shines my mother’s imitation pearls |
Sunday evenin' my Rebecca’s lost a book she never read |
And the moon already fell into the sea |
Saw the statues of our fathers in the courthouse flower bed |
Now they blend with all the lightnin'-tattered trees |
They say, «Time may give you more than your poor bones could ever take» |
My Rebecca said she knew I’d want a boy |
A dollar for my boardwalk red balloon to float away |
She would earn a pocketful to buy me more |
Dun, dun dun, dun dun |
Du-dun dun dun dun dun dun |
Dun, du-dun, dun du-dun |
Du-dun dun dun dun dun dun |
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