Falling Down Laughing (live) Lyrics
He was feeling invulnerable<br />
That was foolish but wonderful<br />
But of course the first one was always free<br />
He's got one wrist in heaven, one ankle in hell<br />
Somebody pushed or he just fell<br />
He's riding the subway watching the lights play<br />
red yellow green he's always somewhere in between<br />
the station he wants, the station he needs, <br />
and the station where the chickenhawks come to feed<br />
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Refrain:<br />
Since the worm turned he's learned<br />
This apple's a blood-filled tear<br />
And he falls down laughing, he falls down laughing<br />
He falls down and he disappears<br />
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First he tried to be pure now he just wants a cure<br />
He's wasted, his skin's sore, he's flat-out poor<br />
When you live in doubt that's when your luck runs out<br />
He's on the roof alone, outside the zone<br />
Now he's on the street again when he calls him then<br />
Billy just cannot resist<br />
Now he's an orphan sleeping with the coffins<br />
Just like Oliver Twist<br />
<br />
Well since the worm turned . . .<br />
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Billy's tired of the lies, he's turning every fire<br />
Looking for his own past<br />
He's limping in the water searching for the quarter<br />
Inch of clarity<br />
His future is raining blood like stars<br />
He's fallen so far behind<br />
He might as well be blind<br />
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Watching late-night film noir inside of stolen cars<br />
His tongue stuck frozen to the monkey bars<br />
His ladder lost its rungs, Billy speaks in tongues<br />
Every time he's in the clear his past looks back and sneers<br />
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But since the worm turned . . .
