Manning - Falling Down? Rising Up! lyrics

a) Falling Down? Too many days in the sun Planning all the things not done The shadows will accumulate And the moments tick away Wishing that I'd begun To find my North Meridian Sooner or later the diary pages are ripped without a shell Falling Down - I won't last forever Falling Down - I'll have to go away Green, green were the valleys And endless were the songs The gaps are all too frequent now And the pauses last too long See the lights on the distant screen March towards the West unseen While children play at growing up And innocence fades away But not another sound! Or wake the sleeper softly bound The cliff tops call the waves to clash And the rainbow fears things cannot last The storm clouds gather and the air grows still Locked within the daffodil A back beat count and the rain will come To wash our fears away Falling Down – I won't last forever Falling Down – I'll have to go away (x2) b) Rising Up! Oh! In the midst of Life (x4) I can't see where we're coming from and I can't see where we'll go Locked within a mortal cycle, fixed to ebb and flow Feel the moment, catch the wind and hold it in your hand For all the things you worry about are waves upon the sand Oh! In the midst of Life (x2) Look up at the heavens and then point towards a star Then pull that body down to Earth and fix it where you are We dance around the fires when the nights are deepest black Holding back the curtains and the ashes and the sack Oh! In the midst of Life (x5)