All Fall Down Songtext
von Dan Bull

Come and walk beside me, stroll through the lavender fields
How the mighty have fallen, reduced to scavenging meals
Now you′re bartering in markets trying to salvage a deal
Just another face in the crowd, now down at your heel
Your crown disappeared, you peon, how does it feel? (How does it feel?)
Those wounds won't close if you don′t allow them to heal (allow to heal)

What goes around comes around, it's a wheel
Hear the peal of the bells as the town is revealed
Outlook severe, how come these people
Here don't realize disease is rife?
Well, they will when they′re colliding with it at the speed of life
All you need′s a flea to climb on you then leave a bite

Then even Jesus Christ won't heed your pleas and cries to be revived
So don′t be surprised the streets are lined with people
Either recently deceased or dying, piled up in a heap and lying
And I don't mean it′s sleepy time, you're shaken awake
By the quake of the plague taking away
Every sacred thing you leave behind


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Ring-a-ring-a-roses, life in a bed of roses
Though in the end we′re all fertilizer that decomposes
But the show must go on though, isn't that what growth is?
Throwing flowers over your grave, grief is showbiz
Stones, sticks, ferrymen in boats, myths, Moses
Below the ground, your bones are bound and nobody'll notice

Not only you, but every human being you′re close with
The only thing we′re guaranteed indeed is the prognosis
It seems hopeless though instead it's rather freeing
Knowing ends are tied to every fiber of your being
Retirement′s a requirement, requiesce in mausoleums
So instead of crying, try a requiem of Carpe Diem

Chances (vanish), hammers (clang)
Barren (sands) and ravaged (lands)
Ladders (clad) in ragged (strands)
Grab his (hand) as shadows (dance)


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En garde! Don't start a fight you can′t revoke
Cross my heart of oak, when I'm provoked, I′ll fire my bow
You look like a hardy bloke, but I could probably poke
Your heart in so hard it's sliced in half like an artichoke
So arches flow like wine at bacchanalian parties thrown
Back in ancient times, traitors lie within the heart of Rome

Now we live in Spartan times, you don't want this smoke
It isn′t smart to spar with fire, why? You′re sure to choke
Start to show the warning signs, you more than find it hard to cope
'Cause your performance right here′s far below a master stroke
The morning light's a falling star before the darkness grows
From port to starboard bow
It′s pointless now to start to harbor hope

Crashing (waves), splashing (spray)
Smacking (pain), smashing (brains)
Slashing (flames), rats in (caves)
Catching (plagues), wrapping (hags)

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