AND WE FALL
Writer: Melanie Safka
Publishers: Songs of Melanie (ASCAP)
Original recording on VICTIM OF THE MOON (2002)

Promises are hard to keep
She falls in love three times a week
And when she falls it’s always deeper
Than the time before

Easier said and harder done
To love one only, only one
Sometimes head and heart succumb
To heaven in the making

And we fall, after being warned and told
After all, the days and nights of hot and cold
Knowing calls for closing eyes and healing words
I’ll love you forever

Beholding to the heart in dreams
We fall in love with love, it seems
Believing in those movie scenes
And the happily ever after

Well some go on and some remain
In the winning losing loving game
And who we hurt in love’s name
It haunts us in our dreaming

And we fall, after being warned and told
After all, the days and nights of hot and cold
Knowing calls for closing eyes and healing words
I’ll love you forever

Through the door and down the aisle
Through the mind’s eye the years and miles
And tell me dear, do you still smile
’Cause this is how you’ve spent your life tonight

And we fall, after being warned and told
After all, the days and nights of hot and cold
Knowing calls for closing eyes and healing words
I’ll love you forever

NOTES

The song first appeared on the limited edition CD VICTIM OF THE MOON (2002) and soon after on the more widely available CRAZY LOVE (2002).

A remixed version, with more prominent electric guitar and piano, is included on PALED BY DIMMER LIGHT (2004).