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When It All Comes Down Lyrics
You gave me more than I hoped for
Your right to take it all away
The trouper you are you always leave them wanting more
But it won't always be that way
Happy I died happy
Look who's coming on down
(You've got everything and your bird can sing
One day it will fly away)
Happy I died happy
Look who's coming on down
(You've got everything and your bird can sing
One day it will fly away)
Here's a boy with time on his side
Here's the girl too stupid to hide
(Away from all...)
All the mistakes I have seen you make before
Just tell me, who'll be your friend when it all comes down
Your big screen self is half of what you could be
I'm still brushing stardust from my body, gee
Oh gee, oh boy look at you now,
Johnny, what's left of you is meant for me
When it all comes down, you'll see
Happy I died happy
Look who's coming on down
(You've got everything and your bird can sing
One day it will fly away)
Happy I died happy
Look who's coming on down
(You've got everything and your bird can sing
One day it will fly away)
Here's a boy with time on his side
Here's the girl too stupid to hide
(Away from all...)
All the mistakes I have seen you make before
Just tell me, who'll be your friend when it all comes down.
It's gonna fall hard
Harder than you think
Sooner than you think
You'll see it's gonna come down
Harder than you think
Sooner than you think
You'll see it's gonna come down
Your right to take it all away
The trouper you are you always leave them wanting more
But it won't always be that way
Look who's coming on down
(You've got everything and your bird can sing
One day it will fly away)
Look who's coming on down
(You've got everything and your bird can sing
One day it will fly away)
Here's the girl too stupid to hide
(Away from all...)
All the mistakes I have seen you make before
Just tell me, who'll be your friend when it all comes down
I'm still brushing stardust from my body, gee
Oh gee, oh boy look at you now,
Johnny, what's left of you is meant for me
When it all comes down, you'll see
Look who's coming on down
(You've got everything and your bird can sing
One day it will fly away)
Look who's coming on down
(You've got everything and your bird can sing
One day it will fly away)
Here's the girl too stupid to hide
(Away from all...)
All the mistakes I have seen you make before
Just tell me, who'll be your friend when it all comes down.
Sooner than you think
You'll see it's gonna come down
Sooner than you think
You'll see it's gonna come down
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This is one of those tricky songs to figure out because the perspectives are always changing. but it looks to be about a boy who has plenty of time to wait for a stupid girl to get smart enough to hide from the things that some very bad powerful people are doing to her, which they've done to her before. These powerful people own everything, including the girl, who seems to be the bird who can sing who's going to fly away. Through it all, one or both of these kids taunts these powerful people asking who'll be their friend when it all comes tumbling down for them. I'll also guess from the picture of Jesus on the record cover that all of this has to do with the Second Coming and the final Fall of Babylon foretold in the Bible's revelations because the song ends with "Harder than you think, sooner than you think, you'll see it's gonna come down." That makes sense because she keeps repeating "I died happy" throughout. So basically it's a song about the end of the world which is coming soon.