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Rooftop Duet / Falling was released on September 21, 2010 by Ghostlight Records as a part of the album Ordinary Days (Original Cast Recording)
September 21, 2010
LabelGhostlight Records
LanguageEnglish
BPM148
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy

Music Video

Music Video

Lyrics

Wow
Look at this view
I know
It's stunning
I'm stunned
You live here?
Well, I house-sit
The artist
Oh
He must be successful
Not really
No?
Well, what'd he do
To score this view?
Trust fund
Trust fund
There you go
Hey, thanks for getting me back my notes
Don't know if I ever said that to you
You didn't, but it's okay
What're they for, anyway?
Oh, my graduate dissertation
Oh
Sounds more impressive than it is
In fact, it sucks
At least, that's what my professor told me at our meeting the other day
If you come up here every day
And you look out at the buildings
You start to notice how the view's always changing
New curtains on the windows
Right there
Fifth floor
That flower pot
That was not
There before
So I come up here every day
And I watch the landscape shifting
A coat of paint
A bar that's changed its name
Nothing ever stays the same
When I was just a little girl
I'd look out my bedroom window
And see this skinny little tree out in the garden
And season after season
It grew and grew
And I surmised
Though toddler-sized
That I would too
And now, here I am with you
As we overlook the city
And I think I'm still that girl
Staring out her window
Seeing things much bigger than she is
And I know that I'll never grow
As tall as these buildings
I'll never quite reach the sky
But God, Warren
I want to try
Don't ask me why
Warren, tell me about your big picture
How you came to New York to begin it
I mean, somehow, you found this big picture
But the trouble is finding the right way to paint myself in it
What do you mean, aren't we all just little specks all huddled together?
I mean, look at me here
With my bag full of pages
Pages like these
Wow
These backpacks of pages
Mountains of pages
That nobody sees
Warren, what are you talking about?
I come here every day
And see the world evolving
From the curtains on the windows to the sky
But I stay just the same
And no one ever sees me
Because I—
Warren!
Know that I'll never stand
As tall as these buildings
What are you doing?
I'll never quite reach the sky
These pages I made
Are just a charade
Get down from there!
I'd rather see them fly!
I was walking
Down Sixteenth Street
I'd decided
It was time
Got my stuff
From her apartment
All the clothes
I'd just moved in there
Bunch of books
The tie she made me wear
Did her dishes
Left my key
It had been days
And where was she?
I couldn't call or even show
I thought it would be best to let him go
I was stopping
At the corner
Feeling tense and
All shook up
Then for no good reason
I look up
I see a piece of paper
Falling from the sky
It makes me stop
Because it's falling from so high
Dancing on the wind
All on its own
But it is not alone
There's a swarm
A storm of
Red and gold and brown and crimson (Red, falling)
Blue and violet, pink and amber (Blue, falling)
Orange, emerald, yellow, white and green (Orange and yellow and green)
Churning like a cloud
Warren, are you crazy?
Get down from there!
Look at how far they go when there's nothing to stop them
Did you make these?
Yeah, it's sort of a project
But no one ever took them
Warren...
No, they're much better off out there
You gotta see this...
Warren, look
I kept this in my bag
"Never let tall buildings—
—Block the view of your dreams!"
That's mine!
It's a little precious but it spoke to me
Keep it
The rest are going over the edge
Wait
Warren?
Throw my notes, too
But what about your thesis?
It's all wrong
This whole thing is wrong
Look at this
I don't even like Virginia Woolf
Her life is depressing
This isn't right
It's not me
It's not my—
Life story
Yeah
Come here
Dozens of people
Reach for the pages that rained
Look how many people are coming over!
Dozens more looking skyward
To see them explained
Wave!
They're waving!
A small piece of paper comes floating my way
It says, "Don’t worry, everything will be okay"
Okay
Okay
Ready?
You bet
On your mark—
On your mark—
Get set
We look up into the sky (Fly!)
At the pages that keep falling (Fly, look at them)
Like a blanket spreading out (Fly)
High above us, oh
Tumbling past windows (Fly, look at them)
And through the air (Tumbling) (So beautiful)
Look at them tumbling
I stop and stare (Everywhere)
Seeing them there (Everywhere)
I can see
So many people flooding the square
Then through everything
Warren, it's beautiful!
My cellphone rings
I know
It's Claire
Look!
Claire
Look!
Claire
Written by: Adam Gwon
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