[00:00.31]belated promise ring - Iron & Wine
[00:21.65]Sunday morning, my Rebecca sleeping in with me again
[00:26.84]There's a kid outside the church kicking a can
[00:32.20]When the cedar branches twist she turns her collar to the wind
[00:37.75]The weather can close the world within its hand
[00:43.18]And my mother says Rebecca is as stubborn as they come
[00:48.61]They both call to me with words I never knew
[00:54.16]There's a bug inside the thimble, there's a band-aid on her thumb
[00:59.47]And a pony in the river turning blue
[01:04.96]They say, "Time may give you more than your poor bones could ever take"
[01:10.51]My Rebecca says she never wants a boy
[01:16.00]To be barefoot on the driveway as they wave and ride away
[01:21.37]Then to run inside and curse the open door
[01:26.86]I once gave to my Rebecca a belated promise ring
[01:32.29]And she sold it to the waitress on a train
[01:37.72]I may find her by the phone but with a fashion magazine
[01:43.15]She may kiss me when her girlfriends leave again
[01:48.64]They say, "Time may give you more than your poor bones could ever take"
[01:54.07]I think I could never love another girl
[01:59.49]To be free atop a tree stump and to look the other way
[02:04.99]While she shines my mother's imitation pearls
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[02:32.54]Sunday evening my Rebecca's lost a book she never read
[02:37.60]And the moon already fell into the sea
[02:43.10]Saw the statues of our fathers in the courthouse flower bed
[02:48.34]Now they blend with all the lightning-tattered trees
[02:54.20]They say, "Time may give you more than your poor bones could ever take"
[02:59.51]My Rebecca said she knew I'd want a boy
[03:05.19]A dollar for my boardwalk red balloon, to float away
[03:10.43]She would earn a pocketful to buy me more