FALLING DOWN
First released 2001
Falling Down is from Pleased To Meet You. It was not perfomed live during the Autumn 2000 tour when most of the new album was previewed. The backing track does bear an uncanny resemblance to Madonna's Material Girl.
Speaking on Later With Jools in May 2001, Tim said the following about the song
"The first song I think we're now doing is Falling Down, which was a jam we did with Brian Eno, just messing around and we gave it to an engineer we had with us called KK, who's a whizz and is going to be a very famous producer I think one day and he just chopped it up and none of us thought much about it for about a week and then he handed me a CD and it just sounded fantastic. He'd chopped up the jam and put it back together again. So I resang a vocal and eventually we presented it to the rest of the band and people were a bit slow to catch on that it was a really great song. But eventually it came through. That's its history.
Lyrically, I'm not sure what it's about, it's about some mad, strange, eccentric woman who's coming into her power. "Baby's on the lamb tonight", on the lamb means on the run, prison jargon, "her sky's all full of stars and love's just something that always goes wrong, it looks and smokes like Eva Gardner" And it's kind of this woman, you can see her, she's almost like that, what's that hitchhiker , the girl from Even Cowgirls Get The Blues, that kind of free spirit. That was the only idea I got when I was writing the lyrics. It kept on coming like that."
WHERE TO GET
Pleased To Meet You CAS (5861464) and CD (5861462)
Album Version : The Gathering Sound boxset USB stick
LYRICS
Baby's on the lamb tonight
The skies are full of stars
Love's just something that always goes wrong
It looks and smokes like Ava Gardner
Baby's gonna blow your lights
Adjust your backlit charm
And if she deems to touch your heart
You can tune in to your senses
Baby's coming alive to her wild side
She can burn down the lie to the dream
Baby trades you blow for blow
Crowns you like a queen
And if you stroke her long enough
Baby turns to cream
Baby's Neptune is in your moon
Venus in your fur
She's in bloom from June through June
Says love is no noun
Love is a reverb
Baby's coming alive to her wild side
She can burn down the lie to the dream
Baby's coming alive to her wild side
She can burn down the lie to the dream
Baby's coming alive to her wild side
She can burn down the lie to the dream
Baby's coming alive to her wild side
She can burn down the lie to the dream
Baby's coming alive to her wild side
She can burn down the lie to the dream