《Belated Promise Ring》歌词

[00:00:00] Belated promise ring - Iron & Wine

[00:00:21] Sunday morning, my Rebecca sleeping in with me again

[00:00:26] There's a kid outside the church kicking a can

[00:00:32] When the cedar branches twist she turns her collar to the wind

[00:00:37] The weather can close the world within its hand

[00:00:43] And my mother says Rebecca is as stubborn as they come

[00:00:48] They both call to me with words I never knew

[00:00:54] There's a bug inside the thimble, there's a band-aid on her thumb

[00:00:59] And a pony in the river turning blue

[00:01:04] They say, "Time may give you more than your poor bones could ever take"

[00:01:10] My Rebecca says she never wants a boy

[00:01:16] To be barefoot on the driveway as they wave and ride away

[00:01:21] Then to run inside and curse the open door

[00:01:26] I once gave to my Rebecca a belated promise ring

[00:01:32] And she sold it to the waitress on a train

[00:01:37] I may find her by the phone but with a fashion magazine

[00:01:43] She may kiss me when her girlfriends leave again

[00:01:48] They say, "Time may give you more than your poor bones could ever take"

[00:01:54] I think I could never love another girl

[00:01:59] To be free atop a tree stump and to look the other way

[00:02:04] While she shines my mother's imitation pearls

[00:02:32] Sunday evening my Rebecca's lost a book she never read

[00:02:37] And the moon already fell into the sea

[00:02:43] Saw the statues of our fathers in the courthouse flower bed

[00:02:48] Now they blend with all the lightning-tattered trees

[00:02:54] They say, "Time may give you more than your poor bones could ever take"

[00:02:59] My Rebecca said she knew I'd want a boy

[00:03:05] A dollar for my boardwalk red balloon, to float away

[00:03:10] She would earn a pocketful to buy me more