Reviews for The Trapeze Swinger Lyrics

if you look past the "nastalgia" inducing majority of the lyrics, you'll see that the end of every other verse and scattered throughout the song are allusions to Heaven and God. Sam Beam never states a positive or negative connotation, but the observations are chilling and wonderful. there is so much to this song, that i have analyzed it many times over and do not even begin to understand its depth... but maybe i'm diving too deep.

a boy i once knew got me addicted to this song in the summer of '06, as well as iron & wine in general. there's really no way to sum up everything i was feeling the first time he put this song on in his car one night... he said, "just listen to the words and the story... it makes you think of all these different memories," and that sums it all up. it's obviously a very personal song, with parts of it that only mr. beam knows the real meaning of, but it still takes you back somehow.

it's now my favorite song in the world.

I heard this song on In Good Company. I love the movie; its simplicity, sweetness and 'humanness.' And then at the end of the movie, this song plays - and it just sums up the feeling I have about the movie. A friend downloaded the song for me and I have it in my laptop and my handphone. I listen to it before I go to sleep, when I wake up, on the way to and back from work. This song is so hauntingly beautiful. It'll probably end up one of my all-time favourites, like Procol Harum's A Whiter Shade of Pale and Eagle's Hotel California.

Whats good people?!! Well, personally I state in my opinion That "THIS SONG IS THE SHIT!!!" It puts the whole movie into perspective. The song says it all for u. Ya know what I mean. That love that u know is out there that love that u know is so painfully true. That love which U WILL ALWAYS HAVE NEVER 4GET NEVER REPLACE NEVER ABANDON even if u c them years later. You still rememer. Always remember never 4get. In your lifetme u will love alot fuck alot crush alot. 1 thing is certain u will have that special someone if ur lucky maybe twice. So take that with u and remember.

I also heard this on the credits of Good Company. Wrote down as much as i could remember of it lyrically. google'd it wrote down the artist and got it. it's amazing

Amazes me every time i listen to it, its absiloutly amazing, and i biaisically cry everytime i listen to it. it depcits such wonder full memories , but also the bad ones.

it's a amazing how so many find it from Good Company!

I watched that show 2 years ago and tried finding the song but end up with other iron and wine songs...

I was switching channels and stumbled upon that movie again... i watched it till the end just to find out what was that song again!

superb song.. it keeps a calm.

also heard it when watching In Good Company
always play it when I'm feeling down, it always gets me going
Its just one of those songs

As all of you, I also found this through the In Good Company film. This is one of those songs that will live on, that it will extend itself through time. It sweeps you, it humbles you, makes you cry, makes you love. Thank you Sam for such a creation, such contribution to us, the common mortals.

If you read this comment and if you know me, please, tell my kids to play this song when I'm gone. My son will play the guitar as if making love to "her " and my daughter will sing like a humming bird... And I will be reaching Heaven in Peace...
Love

This song is haunting and evocative of adolesent memories. I sit and listen to it with tears streaming down my face and aching in my heart. The beauty that he taps into with this song is the real deal.

I found also that the movie, "In Good Company" was average, but the soundtrack is a nice culmination of genres. This song is a gem and the words are filled with longing. I can't get away from the melody so much that I had to own the movie soundtrack and an Iron and Wine cd.

I heard this song play at the end of a 2004 movie with Dennis Quaid in it and was so struck by it's melodic beauty that I wrote down the name of the artist and the song and went in search of the album. Unfortunately, I learned, to my dismay, that the song does not seem to appear on any of the three albums currently available by Iron and Wine.
The song is hauntingly beautiful in both its words and music. A lilting voice that cannot be easily pigeonholed in a particular genre, unless one creates a new genre entitled "great music". I recommend downloading both the music and the words.