Falling from Above

Grandpa said to cousin Jed

Sitting on the porch

I won't retire

But I might retread

Seem like that guy singin' this song

Been doing it for a long time

Is there anything he knows

That he ain't said?

Sing a song for freedom

Sing a song for love

Sing a song for depressed angels

Falling from above

Grandpa held the paper

Pretending he could see

But he couldn't read

Without his glasses on

How can all those people

Afford so many things?

When I was young we wore

What we had on

Mamma said: A little love and affection

In everything you do

Will make the world a better place

With or without you

A little love and affection

In everything you do

A better place

With or without you

Slamming down some late night shots

The artist and the hero compare

Those envisions and afterthoughts

For the twenty first century

But mostly came up with nothing

So the truth was never learned

And the human race just

Kept rollin' on

Rollin' through the fighting

Rollin' through the religious wars

Rollin' down the temple walls

And the churches' exposed sores

Rollin' through the fighting

Through religious wars

Mostly came up with nothing

Grandpa, here's your glasses

You'll see much better now

Said that young girl

Of Edith and Earl's

But Grandpa just kept staring

He was lost in some distant thought

Then he turned and he said

To that young girl

A little love and affection

In everything you do

Will make the world a better place

With or without you

A little love and affection

In everything you do

A better place

With or without you

Hear the rooster crowin'

Down on the Double E

It's a new morning

Breaking on the green

Bouncing off the Towers

The sun's heading for the street

The business meeting

Window shades are drawn

Another morning edition

Is headed for the porch

Because Grandma puts down the paper

Before Grandpa raises his fork

A little love and affection

In every thing you do

A better place

With or without you