Tall Man In The Fall

He says he don't remember

What he did with you

A surprising snowfall

On this New York avenue

Gonna run to see him

At someone else's expense

Lying for a living

To play out this pretence

Tall man in the fall

He's a Lincoln monument

Standing there for all the world to see

Little bird at his shoulder

Your tiny claws holding tight

Desperate

Lovesick

But you wanna take flight

He's just like the Daddy you never call

Tall man in the fall

 

He left a fading Polaroid

That you hide from view

"When Will I Be Loved?"

Sings an ageing ingenue

Gonna stroll by his house

Perhaps he'll wander out

Leaving you a penny

In the hand that you've been dealt

 

Tall man in the fall

He's a modern day Alamo

Cross your heart and step across that line

A Santa Ana breeze is blowing

You'd love to steal from his wife

Get away

Scott free

Go running for your life

But he hesitates in that Southern drawl

Tall man in the fall

 

He's gonna to write you a play

You'll be perfect as the lead lady's friend

But you won't know that

Until you're around the bend

Words will cut like bullets

The scenes will play too long

The other girl gets all the lines

And be warned

The ending may feel wrong

Be warned

The ending may feel wrong

 

Tall man in the fall

Cycling to Calvary

Shed a skin to the old life that you knew

There's nothing left, it's finished

He laughs at your disbelief

Juliet

Dying

His road is paved with grief

And your team of wild horses slow to a crawl

For that tall man in the fall

That tall man in the fall

That tall man in the fall

Tall man in the fall