Fall fall fall falling song5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() "The sky is still blue," she sings, "the clouds come and go, yet something is different, are we falling in love?" The Norwegian duo then float easily on the same sort of waves that carry Julee Cruise throughout her slow descent into her own romantic dreams. Kings of Convenience's live version of Free Fallin' allows Tom Petty's inherently Floridian orange-box romanticism to fully shine, while the audience's swelling repetition of the simple chorus, "Free fallin', I'm free fallin'," actually lifts the whole piece somewhere completely different. Mos Def's Pistola also recalls when bombs fell, perhaps as a metaphor for 9/11, but goes on to hope that God will pick "up the pieces, of the dreams that fall apart". The track hums with the imminent falling of bombs, while the video features two young boys, seemingly, falling in love. Sigur Ros' Viorar Vel Til Loftarasa has its roots in a remark uttered by a TV weatherman during the war in Kosovo war about how it was a "good day for an airstrike". "You break me in two and you throw me away," they sing. ![]() Two decades later, the Jesus and Mary Chain described how being tripped up, being made to fall by an unseen hand, was a total humiliation. "You walk by," she sings, "and I fall to pieces." That is the pit of despair nailed in just eight words. "Baby," he sings, "you will never see my smiling face again." Tell it to Pasty Cline, who took Hank Cochran and Harlan Howard's words and, alongside the Jordanaires, created perhaps one of popular music's most perfect hymns to private heartbreak. ![]() Al Hibbler was Duke Ellington's vocalist during the second world war, was signed to Reprise by Frank Sinatra himself and sang at Louis Armstrong's funeral, none of which impinge on his ability to describe the feeling when the blues come falling down. ![]()
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