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Falling Down (Red Rocks) Morrison Co.

Pharaohs SonPharaohs Son Posts: 62
edited December 2012 in Words and Music...Communication
The song (Falling Down ) was played ONLY once (live) back in the summer of 95 in Colorado. I recently discovered this song on Youtube and seen it listed on a bootleg set list along with (OLD MAN). The Pearl Jam website classifies it as an "IMPROV" AND (old man ) as a cover? This is a very touching song. A masterpiece! Does anyone know the lyrics and the meaning? This is no B- side, this song is great just the way it is...live, raw . The last minute of the song leaves a big dry gulp in your throat. I didnt know that guitars can talk to each other. Just like Uncle Neils Hurricane ...left me hypmotized...Tunnel Vision back to the 70's then dragged through the 80's (with ear plugs on) back on all 4's in the 90's and then the millennium...went through four decades w/o drugs.
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  • ER182263ER182263 Posts: 67
    This song is amazing.
    The lyrics (from The Sky I Scrape site):

    Oh something to remember me by
    Oh something to place in your hand
    Oh something so you will feel all grown up when you call my name
    Oh, i'm falling down, down...
    I'm falling...
    I don't know when i'll be up
    Before your call, please remember
    Frozen like stone, yeah
    He'll be flesh and blood
    I'll be gone
    Oh just a memory passing like pages in a book
    I'm falling down...
    I'm falling...
    I'm falling...
    Don't know if i'll get up
    You're a boy...
    You're a boy...
    You're a boy...
    I know why you'll be...
    Can't guess your side
    Oh no, the cry of a newborn child
    Can't feel the heat
    Of something fresh coming
    Can somebody hide me
    I cannot apolo...
    I cannot apolo...
    I cannot apologize
  • Pharaohs SonPharaohs Son Posts: 62
    Thanks for the Lyrics.
    I dont know where they got the lyrics from but this song sounds very very personal. Now I know why they didnt publish it.

    The Lyrics as heard by me....
    Oooooh something to remember me by
    Ooh something to place in your hand
    Oooh something so you will feel all grown up when you become a man
    Ooooh, i'm falling down, down...
    I'm falling...
    I don't know when i'll be up
    Before your call, please remember
    Frozen like stone, yeah
    He'll be flesh and blood
    I'll be gone
    Oh just a memory passing like pages in a book
    I'm falling down...
    I'm falling...
    I'm falling...
    Don't know if i'll get up
    You were born...
    You're a boy...
    You're a boy...
    I know where you'll be...
    Can't guess your size
    or know the color of your new born child
    can feel the feet
    of soft and fresh coming
    Can somebody hide me
    I cannot apolo...
    I cannot apolo...
    I cannot apologize
  • Got Some If You Need ItGot Some If You Need It Posts: 435
    could this be played this week?
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  • shinmasaliushinmasaliu Posts: 36
    This song is beautiful ... it has a haunting chill about it. Like it's unearthing something very very deep.

    Very sad...
    This is, this is ... my ... last exit.
  • 104 years and counting104 years and counting Posts: 549
    Great song. But I doubt it will never be played ever again. Sounds like he is talking to an unborn child that was aborted
  • OGT92OGT92 Posts: 1,588
    Great, great song!!!
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  • Hugh Freaking DillonHugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    I gotta check this song out.
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  • TheRealDanPatchTheRealDanPatch Posts: 1,854
    Cool Song / Cool Bootleg.
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  • TheRealDanPatchTheRealDanPatch Posts: 1,854
    Pharaohs Son wrote:
    The song (Falling Down ) was played ONLY once (live) back in the summer of 95 in Colorado. I recently discovered this song on Youtube and seen it listed on a bootleg set list along with (OLD MAN). The Pearl Jam website classifies it as an "IMPROV" AND (old man ) as a cover? This is a very touching song. A masterpiece! Does anyone know the lyrics and the meaning? This is no B- side, this song is great just the way it is...live, raw . The last minute of the song leaves a big dry gulp in your throat. I didnt know that guitars can talk to each other. Just like Uncle Neils Hurricane ...left me hypmotized...Tunnel Vision back to the 70's then dragged through the 80's (with ear plugs on) back on all 4's in the 90's and then the millennium...went through four decades w/o drugs.

    Here is a link to that show if anybody wants to download it:

    http://dp-rearviewmirror.blogspot.com/2 ... ne-20.html
    I am the artist formally known as "Cameron4President"....
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  • OceanInDisguise13OceanInDisguise13 Posts: 924
    Cameron4President wrote:
    Pharaohs Son wrote:
    The song (Falling Down ) was played ONLY once (live) back in the summer of 95 in Colorado. I recently discovered this song on Youtube and seen it listed on a bootleg set list along with (OLD MAN). The Pearl Jam website classifies it as an "IMPROV" AND (old man ) as a cover? This is a very touching song. A masterpiece! Does anyone know the lyrics and the meaning? This is no B- side, this song is great just the way it is...live, raw . The last minute of the song leaves a big dry gulp in your throat. I didnt know that guitars can talk to each other. Just like Uncle Neils Hurricane ...left me hypmotized...Tunnel Vision back to the 70's then dragged through the 80's (with ear plugs on) back on all 4's in the 90's and then the millennium...went through four decades w/o drugs.

    Here is a link to that show if anybody wants to download it:

    http://dp-rearviewmirror.blogspot.com/2 ... ne-20.html


    THANK YOU. Been looking for this for a while now. Much appreciated!
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  • on2legson2legs Posts: 15,117
    Most awesome. THANKS!
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  • on2legson2legs Posts: 15,117
    Why, oh WHY won't they release this whole show from the vault - it sounds so nice :D
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  • Pharaohs SonPharaohs Son Posts: 62
    Thank You Ten Club
    Well ladies and gentlemen I just received the surprise of my life in the mail today. The PJ fan 2011 club single is that show in (Red Rocks) Morrison Co.1995 Fallen Down and No Jeremy. I am touched that the PJ members see's it's value. An only played once song will play endlessly on my little brown turntable.
    I cant thank the Ten Club enough.
  • OGT92OGT92 Posts: 1,588
    Pharaohs Son wrote:
    Thank You Ten Club
    Well ladies and gentlemen I just received the surprise of my life in the mail today. The PJ fan 2011 club single is that show in (Red Rocks) Morrison Co.1995 Fallen Down and No Jeremy. I am touched that the PJ members see's it's value. An only played once song will play endlessly on my little brown turntable.
    I cant thank the Ten Club enough.

    2010 single.
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  • whispering handswhispering hands Posts: 13,527
    on2legs wrote:
    Why, oh WHY won't they release this whole show from the vault - it sounds so nice :D
    It was SUCH an awesome and moving show from beginning to end..I can't wait to go get blank CDs and make myself copies of all the shows pre-2000 that I've been to..( for personal use only..) I really hope they play there again.. it is such a religious experience.. I didn't want to go back to Ca after seeing this place.. it is just so amazing, the only thing I can imagine being close would be the Gorge ( which I've never been to but want terrifically to go see!) and then on top of the beauty and incredible acoustics.. it was PJ I was seeing.. that show still has the power to give me the shivers just like the night I went and saw it..
  • NamiNami Posts: 5,995
    shinmasaliu wrote:
    This song is beautiful ... it has a haunting chill about it. Like it's unearthing something very very deep.

    Very sad...

    +1 Thanks for posting lyrics too...

    awesome song.
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  • NamiNami Posts: 5,995
    Man I cannot stop listening to this song....

    nice lil hidden gem i was unaware of....
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  • maki_jmaki_j Posts: 70
    Here is the more important question... has anyone figured out how to play this? Any tabs? Sounds fairly easy. Killer some if someone tabbed it correctly... :?:
  • curlycurly Posts: 703
    yes....great song, always loved this one...this was my first pj show!!! and after jammin to their music non stop for years...it was great to finally get to see them...ahhhh...those were the days!!!............and oh ya, by the way...4 decades of rockin' with free sprited, free minded alcohol/#*&%'s/*&#@'s/ etc etc.....oops, kinda slipped...sorry, didn't mean to add that...or ruin the good thread if it offends........ps...in moderation, of course!!!...
  • curlycurly Posts: 703
    my bad.....and this site isn't the time and place to disrespect...i've lost a many of family/friends over the years to being fuck ups!!! so, again...didnt mean to turn a good post into a party joke...
  • BrainOfMABrainOfMA Posts: 553
    Really great song, some of PJ's improvs are amazing
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  • Smoke In A TreeSmoke In A Tree Posts: 20
    One of my all time favorite songs! I get the chills everytime I play this song
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  • WhyNotSwedenWhyNotSweden Posts: 4,307
    The video:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2rGmB-pYWY
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  • shetellsherselfshetellsherself Posts: 8,821
    Bump for a chilling song... And a fantastic show! Raw emotion in the voice and I agree it's mesmerizing how the guitars talk to each other.
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  • PJSEMPREPJSEMPRE Posts: 687
    Love this song.
    Let's say knowledge is a tree, yeah.
    It's growing up just like me.
  • SlickslickaSlickslicka Posts: 92
    Been rockin out to this all weekend!
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  • iOnlyownMymindiOnlyownMymind Posts: 2,808
    So, I was just listening to this and didn't really know if it was considered a PJ original. It is listed here on the website as being a cover, so I guess it's considered a Rockfords song? I'm still confused, but it is an absolute gem.
  • halloweenhead95halloweenhead95 Posts: 255
    I love this song. It's one of my favourites
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  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Posts: 36,946
    iOnlyownMymind said:

    So, I was just listening to this and didn't really know if it was considered a PJ original. It is listed here on the website as being a cover, so I guess it's considered a Rockfords song? I'm still confused, but it is an absolute gem.

    mislabeled. it's a PJ original.

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  • SarahSarah Posts: 736
    Hadn't listened to this song in years, but this thread inspired me to fire it up. So great!!
    "Somewhere in between / There and here / I got lost / I got scared..."
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