Fall Line lyrics

And by the way,

you know that hope will make you strange,

make you blink,

make you blank, make you sink.

It will make you afraid of change,

enough to blame the box with the view of the world

and the walls that fill the frame.

I turn it up, but then I turn it off

because I can't stand

when they start to talk about

the hurting and killing,

whose shoes are we filling,

the damage and ruin

and the things that we're doing.

Gotta, we gotta stop,

we gotta turn it all off.

We gotta rewind and start it up again

because we fell across the fall line.

Ain't there nothing sacred anymore?

Somebody saw him jump,

yeah, but nobody saw him slip.

I guess he lost a lot of hope

and then he lost the grip

and now he's lying in the freeway

in the middle of this mess.

Guess we lost another one, just like the other one.

Optimistic hypocrite that didn't have the nerve to quit

the things that kept him wantin' more

until he finally reached the core.

He fell across the fall line.

Ain't there nothing sacred anymore?

• Artist:Jack Johnson
• Album:On and On (2003)