When I Fall

I look straight in the window try not to look below

Pretend I'm not up here I try counting sheep

The sheep seem to shower off this office tower

Its Nine point eight straight down I can't stop my knees

I wish I could fly

From this building

From this wall

And if I should try

Would you catch me if I fall

My hands clench the squeegee my secular rosary

Hang on to your wallet hang on to your rings

I can't look below me or something might throw me

I curse at the windstorms that October brings

I look in the boardroom a modern pharaoh's tomb

I'd gladly swap places if they care to dive

They're lined up at the window peer down into limbo

They're frightened of jumping in case they survive

I wish I could step from this scaffold

Onto soft green pastures shopping malls or bed

With my family and my pastor and my grandfather who's Dead

I look straight in the mirror I watch it come clearer

I look like a painter behind all the grease

But paintings creating and I'm just erasing

A crystal clear canvas is my masterpiece

I wish I could fly

From this building

From this wall

And if I should try

Would you catch me if I fall

I wish I could fly

From this building

From this wall

And if I should try

Would you catch me if I fall

When I fall

When I fall

When I fall

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