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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