X-Patriate: Alan J. Lipman: All Fall Down

From Alan Lipman, the vocalist, composer, lyricist and multi-instrumentalist known as X-Patriate, "After The Fall" from the new release "12 Women."

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All Fall Down
Lyrics, Music, Instruments, Vocals by Alan J. Lipman
Copyright 2010-11
Alan J. Lipman/X-Patriate Music
All Rights Reserved


Chaotic butterfly
In the hospital hallway
Where the drone dropped through
An amazing light

Stutter steps
In the Capitol hallway
As the aides stumble out
Into the night

Beltway stream
A steaming scream of madness
As it comes too close
To a traffic jam

As he stumbles across
The street at the light
Mothers holding his hand

And

All hold yourself up
All bring your soul around
All drink from the cup
And all fall down

Castles rise and fall
By the seaside
As omnipotent streams
Babble on with burning lust

And the baffled stand by
While he's making hay
With others lives
And once steeled hearts
Are turning into rust

Turn around
And look at the shore
I saw it
A flame that
Lit the night for
Another day

There are ways to get to
The very core of it
Then watch it all fall out and
Just sail away

And

All hold yourself up
All bring your soul around
All drink from the cup
And all fall down


(Instrumental)


Select your sight
There's a new day dawning
Violent crowd voices
Rising from the shore

You can find a new voice
to make their sound echo down
Or you can find a way to make
Something more

Sometimes when you sleep you
Think the world isn't a dream
Until you see that that's what you
Were dreaming of

And the weathered shape of the
Suffering seems
To be a fight for
The worst
Better meaning of

And

All hold yourself up
All bring your soul around
All drink from the cup
And all fall down

All hold yourself up
All bring your soul around
All drink from the cup
And all fall down
All fall down
All fall down

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