Lyrics to
Under The Falling Sky

This version of Under The Falling Sky was released by Jackson Browne in 1972.

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Warm and lovely mystery, fire smiling through
Before this moment fades away I want to know you
I’ve got lightening in my pocket, thunder in my shoe
Have no fear I’ve got something here I want to show you

Low, under the falling sky
Easily we will lie
While I bring it to you

It’s a low road, a high wire going from me to you
And in your eyes the distance left is closing
I’ve got a feeling in my oceans
Blood underneath my skin
That into your bright fields this prison is opening

Low, under the falling sky
Easily we will lie
While I bring it to you

Our shadows wake each day though they don’t know why
They hope and try – live and die
So leave them in their frozen world
Come and be my lover
If only for one stolen moment
We will live forever

Warm and lovely mystery, can you hear the choir?
Voices can no longer hold my desire
Abandon your sad history and meet me in the fire
Our angels wait to take us higher and higher
Higher and higher

Low, under the falling sky
Easily we will lie
While I bring it to you

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Under The Falling Sky, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1972 song by Jackson Browne. Some of the lyrics to Under The Falling Sky have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Jackson Browne and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Under The Falling Sky if you take apart the structure of the words. 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 Under The Falling Sky" means the words set to the music of Under The Falling Sky, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Jackson Browne. 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 Under The Falling Sky and the lyrics to Under The Falling Sky are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Jackson Browne who came here looking just for the lyrics to Under The Falling Sky, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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