Story Behind the Song
Written as pure poetry, one of those songs that flowed out at once. Written in 1992, but remade here with the crystalline voice of Melanie Joy Hall gracing the lyrics. Good advice to all inhabitants of Spaceship Earth.
Lyrics
Falling to the Moon
Words & music by Gary Hall
At a thousand miles an hour, he found things weren't quite right.
Everything he tried to touch, would soon pass out of sight.
Mesmerized by lightning, he couldn't see the darkling sky
As a cautionary measure he held on tight and cried.
He is falling to the moon, he is falling to the moon,
He can see but he can't touch, he’s falling to the moon.
He is falling to the moon, he is falling to the moon,
He’s afraid he can’t do much, he’s falling to the moon.
Sometimes she thinks her world is up, other times it's down.
But it's the same world, after all, after all it's round.
Still it's hard to stand up straight on a spinning top,
Harder still to use your will to try to make it stop
She is falling to the moon, she is falling to the moon,
She will try to make it stop, she’s falling to the moon.
She is falling to the moon, she is falling to the moon,
She may try a different path, she’s falling to the moon.
Did you ever see a herd so deadly to its field?
Cut the grass so low, so short, that all it's growth is stilled.
Soon there's nothing left to hold, they start to lose their grip,
Into heaven's emptiness, far from the mothership.
They are falling to the moon, they are falling to the moon,
They are deadly to themselves, they’re falling to the moon.
They are falling to the moon, they are falling to the moon,
Now the green tide turns to dust, they’re falling to the moon.
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