Upside Looking Down-Walter Becker

[ti:Upside Looking Down] [ar:Walter Becker] [al:Circus Monkey] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Upside Looking Down - Walter Becker [00:09.68]Well you came on [00:11.43]Like some blazing supernova [00:14.99] [00:17.66]With a flame that burned [00:19.60]So brightly in the sky [00:23.48] [00:25.71]Then you woke up [00:27.32]And your long white night was over [00:31.70] [00:33.71]And you cursed the world [00:35.79]That dared to pass you by [00:39.56] [00:41.48]So now you blame the ones [00:43.95]Who love you for your sorrows [00:47.70] [00:49.87]Dealing dirty while you steal [00:52.75]The higher ground [00:55.40] [00:57.98]But you cheated and you lied [01:01.88]And life took you for a ride [01:05.23] [01:05.84]Now you're standing [01:07.30]On the upside looking down [01:12.31] [01:14.24]And O the hero in disguise [01:18.15]Believing his own alibis [01:22.01]You run so scared [01:24.13]You're standing still [01:26.10]I know you are [01:28.13]I know you will [01:30.26]Be the first to call it [01:32.45]Quits and run for cover [01:35.56] [01:38.18]While your little world [01:40.23]Is crumbling all around [01:43.69] [01:46.30]But you punked out on yourself [01:49.59] [01:50.15]You can't blame nobody else [01:54.11]And now that you're standing [01:55.73]On the upside looking down [02:00.48] [02:35.40]And O the heartache of the thief [02:38.80]Strung out on his own stash of grief [02:42.96]A line for you a flake for me [02:46.91]But now it's ancient history [02:51.15]As the sky is turning black [02:53.58]And glassing over [02:56.64] [02:59.14]As you drift so high [03:01.44]Above the lights of town [03:04.91] [03:07.40]All at once it seems so clear [03:11.22]You can see it all from here [03:14.47] [03:15.33]When you're standing [03:16.54]On the upside looking down