[Video] Iron & Wine – The Trapeze Swinger (Live via Vevo)

I’m not the most emotional of listeners, but this is one of the few songs where my eyes well up a bit. I’ve never had the chance to consult on whether Sam Beam, Mr. Iron & Wine himself, meant the song to be a paean to those first few minutes of an afterlife from a secularist’s point-of-view. It is one of the most beautiful songs of the past 10 years, and achingly so.