Beating the fall
I can't help but desire of falling down this time
Deep in this hole of my making
I can't escape
Falling all this time

We come to this place
Falling through time
Living a hollow life
Always we're taking
Waiting for signs
Hollow life

Life x8

Fearing to fall
And still the ground below me calls
Falling down this time
Ripping apart all these things I have tried to stop
Falling all this time

We come to this place
Falling through time
Living a hollow life
Always we're taking
Waiting for signs
Hollow life

Is there ever any wonder
Why we look to the sky
Search in vain
Asking why?
All alone
Where is God?
Looking down
We don't know

We fall in space
We can't look down
Death may come
Peace I have found
What to say
Am I alive?
Am I asleep?
Or have I died?

(Haunting me)

We fall in space
We can't look down
Death may come
Peace I have found
What to say
Am I alive?
Am I asleep?
We fall down

(Something takes a part of me)

We come to this place
Falling through time
Living a hollow life
Always we're taking
Waiting for signs
Hollow life

Is there ever any wonder
Why we look to the sky
Search in vain
Asking why?
All alone
Where is God?
Looking down
We don't know
x2

We fall in space
We can't look down
Death may come
Peace I have found


Lyrics submitted by Robert Metal, edited by retry4z

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    Where the hell is my post?! Does anyone know if there's a page button somewhere? Anyway... in case for some reason my post didn't make, it was basically a longer (much LONGER) version of what JozzyJosbourne wrote. I don't think Jon is denouncing God in this song. Maybe he's echoing it a little (I doubt it though), but that's not what the song is about. It's about anyone who feels that they're just wasting away. The title is self-explanatory.

    RadioKoRnon June 25, 2003   Link

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