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By Pages:   1    2    3    Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about The Trapeze Swinger (page 1/ 3) ------ performed by Iron & Wine syntax | Reviewer: Anonymous | 12/20/08 the lyrics are also well written in a poetic sense. everything is refering to the other remembering him, until the end when he will remember her and graffiti the gates of heaven with thier memories. it's very well balanced. Phenomenal | Reviewer: Evangelina | 11/26/08 I adore this song. It's sound. It's lyrics. Absolutely brilliant. I love the image of the Gates of Heaven having graffiti (and what the graffiti reads). My favorite part has to be: "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" Absolutely brilliant! Paid 10 bucks for this song | Reviewer: Shema Bema | 11/23/08 I looked this song up and it was album only on itunes, so I bought the whole album for it. Maybe I just did it cuz I was stoned at the time but I still think it's totally worth the 10 bucks I paid. aesthetic | Reviewer: Anonymous | 11/15/08 He kinda flips the script with this one. instead of saying he's going to remember the lost one, he's telling the lost one to remember him. and i love the line about the graffiti. he really gets crazy with it, because first of all who would ever think of the Pearly Gates as having graffiti on them, let alone describing the graffiti as "eloquent". BRILLIANT!!! amazing | Reviewer: jason | 9/12/08 i think he wrote this song so anyone can relate to it because he just goes through so many experiences. i personnaly relate to 2 of the verses with my 1st love and with my second love 3 of the verses really hit home i mean this was ingenious idea it really does make you remember one of you guys said you smiled and cried the first time you heard it dude so did i that was kinda weird but yeah the song is meant to be taken how you take it it effects everybody on different levels I am amazed. | Reviewer: Anonymous | 8/29/08 This song is.. simply phenomenal. I don't even know how I heard about it, but I did and now it is creeping to the top of my list of favorites. I get chills every time I hear it, and I get something new from it whenever I listen to it. Sam Beam is fantastic, Iron & Wine is one of my favorite bands and this is a superb song. It's just.. beautiful. Indescribable beauty. i was meant to hear this song when i did | Reviewer: bbbbggg | 8/3/08 i was going through a painful experience im sure many others can relate to,the girl i loved was leaving for school, i was never to see her again,and she was getting back with her ex anyway because that was her big plan,but i will always remember nights where we just sat in her bed and discussed life,or listened to deathcab and just smiled at eachother,she left and she showed me this song a few minutes before i dropped her off at the bus station,i will always remember the smile on her face before she said goodbye,and i said thank you,this song has truly changed my perspective on life Absolute tripper | Reviewer: Max | 2/18/08 Keeps you sedated anytime you hear it. Makes you remember all the times you want to be there which you have missed out. Painstaking as it may seem, it gives you an inept idea what everyone has gone thru at some time or the other. Cant stop going into oblivion every time I listen to hit. it does what music is meant to do | Reviewer: Amy | 1/9/08 it is so difficult to describe higher human values without reducing them to empty cliches. i mean, what words can adequately describe the experience of love or death... ...how do i express what it is was like to lose the person i loved the most? when i heard this song i found myself smiling with tears streaming down my face because it conveyed the essence of my internal experience. i really like some of the interpretations that have been posted here and i agree that mr. beam is an exceptionally talented artist. for me, this song is an expression of the universal experience of death and loss. and for me, both lyrically and musically, this song mirrors the distance that the passage of time wedges between ourselves and those we've lost. memories fade. pain lessens. we move on. it's bittersweet but its also called healing. hearing this song, i came face to face with what actually endures beyond death. this song allows me to remember. Absolutely Beautiful | Reviewer: Maggie Haughey | 11/26/07 I love this song. I can listen to it hundreds of times in a row without getting tired of it. The lyrics are so deep and rich, and the musical acompaniment is so perfect. I listen to it while I go to sleep every night. I've known it for about 2 years now, and I'm just now realizing how badly I need to share it with my friends. Add Your New Review About The Song By Pages:   1    2    3