I Fall Down
by U2

Album: October (1981)
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  • Julie says
    John I'm getting nowhere
    I wrote this letter
    Hope to get to some place soon
    I want to get up
    When I wake up
    But when I get up
    I fall down

    Julie wake up
    Julie tell the story
    You wrote the letter
    Said you were gonna get there someday
    Gonna walk in the sun
    And the wind and the rain
    Never walk back again

    Now you fall down
    You're falling down
    You fall down
    You fall down

    Julie say something
    Julie say you're sorry
    You're gonna get better
    You better not leave me here anyway

    I want to get up
    When you wake up
    When I get up

    I fall down
    When I'm falling down
    I fall down
    I broke myself

    I fall
    I fall down
    I'm falling down
    I'll fall down
    When you fall down
    When I'm falling down
    Is when you're falling down
    When you fall down
    I'll fall down
    I fall down Writer/s: Adam Clayton, Dave Evans, Larry Mullen, Paul Hewson
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Comments: 1

  • Dan Kirwan from Los AngelesI disagree. I Fall Down is about two lovers who are trying to get off of heroin. "Falling down" means he/she had a relapse. "Said you were gonna get there someday. Gonna walk in the sun, and the wind, and the rain. Never walk back again" is her describing how she promises to get clean. "You're gonna get better, you better not leave me here anyway" means he is afraid she will get clean and leave him behind still addicted.

    The key is the phrase "get better." Bono would not write simply about love and use that phrase. It only makes sense in the context of getting clean from drugs.
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