Falling Down

You've got to dance like the world Is falling down around you Because it is Because it is And if you're lucky enough that Happiness has found you You better get to dancing As your way of saying thank you For the spiderweb of electrical wires And the patches of the grass that are still green And the wind that blows The dandelion seeds over everything And the old brick building they haven't torn down yet And the shade beneath the sycamore tree And the stolen momentary lapse of reason That convinced you to dance with me You've got to dance like the world Is falling down around you Because it is Because it is And if you're lucky enough that Happiness has found you You better get to dancing As your way of saying thank you For the distant crumbling interstate lanes Where the cars still somehow hum And the cradle of what used to pass for culture And the cave that we all crawled from And the nervous hospital long since defunct And the shade beneath the cell tower tree And the accidental twisted fingers of fate That placed you here with me You've got to dance like the world Is falling down around you Because it is Because it is And if you're lucky enough that Happiness has found you You better get to dancing As your way of saying thank you