"When I Fall" by the Barenaked Ladies
Capo on 4th fret.
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I look straight in the window, try not to look below
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Pretend I'm not up here, I try counting sheep
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But the sheep seem to shower off this office tower
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Nine-point-eight straight down I can't stop my knees
(Chorus)
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I wish I could fly
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From this building
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From this wall
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And if I should try
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Would you catch me if I fall?
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My hands clench the squeegee, my secular rosary
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Hang on to your wallet, hang on to your rings
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Can't look below me; something might throw me
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Curse at the windstorms that October brings
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I look in the boardroom; a modern pharaoh's tomb
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I'd gladly swap places, if they care to dive
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They're lined up at the window, peer down into limbo
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They're frightened of jumping, in case they survive
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I wish I could step from this scaffold
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Onto soft green pastures, shopping malls, or bed
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With my family and my pastor and my grandfather who's Dead
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Look straight in the mirror, watch it come clearer
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I look like a painter, behind all the grease
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But paintings creating, and I'm just erasing
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A crystal-clear canvas is my masterpiece
(Chorus 2x)
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When I fall
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When I fall
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