And Then We Fell

When the bough broke we were crossing America

You with your stories and me hanging on

Your hands on the wheel and your hair out the window

Its counterfeit color danced in the September air

When the bough broke we were flirting with Canada

You said prove that you love me and live with me there

And leave all of the frivolous back in America

You found true love in a picture that you saw somewhere

He took her hand, they did cartwheels right into the air

And then they fell

With the bough broken, we're lost in America

(Driving in circles and circles and chasing our tails)

You with your politics, me hanging on

(Driving in circles and circles and circles and...)

I think I know of the picture that you saw somewhere

The fire below, they did cartwheels right into the air

And then they fell

(Layers of concrete won't dampen the roar of the

Chaos beneath those ninety-something floors

And the weight of the waves as they crashed on the shore

Left a cool breeze past the buildings

And so they fell)

Why can't you just sit there is all that I wanted to say

So, we're obsessed with celebrity and all the frivolity

And all the while gravity's pulling us straight into Hell

And so we fell

My silence was broken, through glorious peaks of Montana

Now, this is America, I muttered under my breath