Lyrics to
Falling Down

This version of Falling Down was released by Joe Walsh in 1974.

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Making no deposit, no return
Making the same mistakes, we never learn
All of the pain in those faces
Trying not to show concern

Spent and broken
Like a worn out subway door in the city

Hanging in the closet, wait in line
When you go by the laws, you pay the fine
I’m burning the candle at both ends
Twice the light in half the time

Down to crawlin’
Feel like I’m falling
Oh & yes, the rain doesn’t have to hurry in the city;
Falls sadly to the ground
Rain doesn’t have to hurry in the city

Only way to fall is down

Falling down

But still you’re running in a race that can’t be won
Aiming hard to fill the spaces when they’re gone
Worn out shoes with no laces
Getting too loose to stay on

Back to crawling
Feel like I’m falling
Oh & yes the rain takes its time to fall in the city
Falls sadly to the ground
Rain kinda of says it all in the city
Only way to fall is down

Falling down

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Joe Walsh has released many songs over the years besides Falling Down. Joe Walsh released songs from 1974 to 1992 spanning across albums like So What, But Seriously Folks..., There Goes The Neighborhood, You Bought It - You Name It, The Confessor, Rocky Mountain Way, Got Any Gum?, Ordinary Average Guy, and Songs For A Dying Planet. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Joe Walsh.

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About Lyrics and Falling Down by Joe Walsh

The lyrics for Falling Down are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1974 song by Joe Walsh. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Falling Down have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Falling Down - Joe Walsh and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Falling Down by Joe Walsh in multiple ways. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Falling Down" means the words set to the music of Falling Down, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Joe Walsh. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Falling Down and the lyrics to Falling Down are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Joe Walsh who came here looking just for the lyrics to Falling Down, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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