Keith Hampton: Songs & Lyrics
I Will Not Fall Again
(Keith Hampton)
2006-12-31
2006 Keith Hampton / BMI
From CHANCE & CHANGE. Produced by Keith Hampton & David Liquori. Vocals, guitar: Keith. Mandolin: Jim Dalton.
he picks himself up and says “i will not fall again”
brushing the dust off of his knees and his hands and his pride
in the afternoon haze of this august-day reverie
he is climbing and leaping and living through eight-year-old eyes
to the top of the stairs where the ledge is just high enough
it’s a thrill to look down and set one foot out leaning in space
a safety pin binding his terrycloth wonder-cape
to his makeshift identity, gleaned from a comic-book page
all of the magic he’s seen
sunday school and saturday tv
granting him wings in his dreams
so many stories, so many reasons to fly
his journey is less than a fraction of fantasy
he’s a dandelion seed drifting joyously frozen in time
but down to the ground measures four feet of ecstasy
‘cause the porch and the lawn could be mars and the moon, in his mind
all of the magic he’s seen...
fly
the end of the day is a sky filled with street lights
and a crimson divide in the clouds as the sun goes to sleep
he picks himself up and says “i will not fall again”
i will not fall, i will not fall
i will not fall
i will not