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"Belated Promise Ring" is a track by Iron & Wine, from the album Around the Well, released 19th May 2009. Full lyrics are available below.
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[Verse 1] 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 [Chorus] 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 [Verse 2] 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 [Chorus] 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 [Verse 3] 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 [Chorus] 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 [Outro] 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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