When I Fall-Barenaked Ladies

[ti:When I Fall (Album Version)] [ar:Barenaked Ladies] [al:Born On A Pirate Ship] [by:] [offset:0] [00:15.52]I look straight in the window try not to look below [00:23.44]Pretend I'm not up here try counting sheep [00:30.24]But the sheep seem to shower off this office tower [00:37.85]Nine-point-eight straight down I can't stop my knees [00:45.17]I wish I could fly [00:47.29]From this building [00:49.23]From this wall [00:52.66]And if I should try [00:54.85]Would you catch me if I fall [01:07.64]My hands clench the squeegee my secular rosary [01:14.75]Hang on to your wallet hang on to your rings [01:22.43]Can't look below me or something might throw me [01:29.66]Curse at the windstorms that October brings [01:36.72]I look in the boardroom; a modern pharaoh's tomb [01:44.33]I'd gladly swap places if they care to dive [01:51.39]They're lined up at the window peer down into limbo [01:59.12]They're frightened of jumping in case they survive [02:06.67]I wish I could step from this scaffold [02:10.85]Onto soft green pastures shopping malls or bed [02:15.97]With my family and my pastor and my grandfather who's Dead [02:25.20]Look straight in the mirror watch it come clearer [02:32.69]I look like a painter behind all the grease [02:40.05]But paintings creating and I'm just erasing [02:47.42]A crystal-clear canvas is my masterpiece [02:54.84]I wish I could fly [02:56.98]From this building [02:58.86]From this wall [03:02.22]And if I should try [03:04.10]Would you catch me if I fall [03:09.65]I wish I could fly [03:11.83]From this building [03:13.70]From this wall [03:17.01]And if I should try [03:18.88]Would you catch me if I fall