How to Take a Fall Lyrics

Lyric discussion by LuckCharm 

Cover art for How to Take a Fall lyrics by Elliott Smith

I think it's just about somebody who has put themselves into something that's way over their head. This is one of the first songs I heard by him, I really like alot. Or, it could be like Jabba said, somebody in a relationship, not nessesarly with an older woman, but just maybe too caught up in the relationship to pay attention to anything else around them and not knowing what they would do without being with that person.