Come Tumblin' Down

Album: Fierce Mercy (2017)
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Songfacts®:

  • In this song, the former Men At Work frontman Colin Hay sings about dancing while the world ends:

    I raise my hands up to the sky
    As we head for higher ground
    Let's just keep on dancing
    Till it all comes tumbling down


    "Humanity and the planet is in crisis mode, and I'm suggesting that we should just dance while that's happening," Hay said in a track-by-track series. "That's not really what I think - I don't really think we should just dance while things are tumbling down, but you have to make things right at the end of the day, so it's a combination of being really frightened and being concerned about having the song rhyme. A frightening rhyme."

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