the fall

from don't call on me by Sidney Gish

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2012

the words don't mean anything, they're a vague story about an alien planet. i got a little excited with piano octaves near the end

also i thought it'd be cool of me to write a song in 7/8

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it turned around
so fast we fell stars went by
there's just air and a view from way up high

so i'll brave the weather
i'll brave the fall and hope that
when it ends i'll be safe
ooo i'll be safe
ooo i'll be safe

we saw the ground come closer mile by mile
in colors never seen before
we should stay for a little while

so i'll brave the weather
i'll brave the fall and hope that
when it ends i'll be safe
ooo i'll be safe
ooo i'll be safe

hair tied with bows
white faces paper skin
and they said how lucky the fall had been

so i'll brave the weather
i'll brave the fall and hope that
when it ends i'll be safe
ooo i'll be safe
ooo i'll be safe

we didn't conquer the slanted land
or the tales they used to tell
of odd pink men with hair and nails

so i'll brave the weather
i'll brave the fall and hope that
when it ends i'll be safe
ooo i'll be safe
ooo i'll be safe
______________________

comment from me transcribing these in 2022: this was a sci-fi fanfic based on a picture i really liked, a painting of faceless girls catching butterflies. (it's the art for the bird and the bee's 2007 self-titled album.)

i always thought they were clones or aliens made out of paper and i wanted to explain this via song! the narrator falls out of the sky onto the planet where the girls live, and becomes one of them upon arrival. i felt like i didn't do it justice here, and didn't care to explain further. (what i did do was use a fun time signature – a worthy cause to my teen self)

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from don't call on me, released November 12, 2015

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