When I Fall

	  		
Intro: C G Am F 

F                        C     G                 Am    F 
  I look straight in the window, try not to look below 
                   C   G                D     F 
Pretend I'm not up here, I try counting sheep 
                      C     G                Am    F 
But the sheep seem to shower off this office tower 
                          C  G                 D      F             
Nine-point-eight straight down I can't stop my knees 

 
               Am 
I wish I could fly 
          G 
From this building 
          D    F 
From this wall 
                Am 
And if I should try 
          G             D      F 
Would you catch me if I fall? 



                    C       G            Am      F 
My hands clench the squeegee, my secular rosary 
                C     G                 D      F 
Hang on to your wallet, hang on to your rings 
             C      G                Am       F 
Can't look below me; something might throw me 
                 C  G                D       F            
Curse at the windstorms that October brings 
              C         G             Am         F 
I look in the boardroom; a modern pharaoh's tomb 
                C      G                D     F 
I'd gladly swap places, if they care to dive 
                        C     G                Am    F 
They're lined up at the window, peer down into limbo 
                      C      G                 D      F 
They're frightened of jumping, in case they survive 

               Am             G 
I wish I could step from this scaffold  
     Em                   F                  Am 
Onto soft green pastures, shopping malls, or bed 
        G             Em            Am                D    F 
With my family and my pastor and my grandfather who's Dead 

                     C     G               Am      F 
Look straight in the mirror, watch it come clearer 
              C       G               D       F 
I look like a painter, behind all the grease 
                 C     G              Am     F 
But paintings creating, and I'm just erasing 
                C     G            D     F 
A crystal-clear canvas is my masterpiece 

(Chorus 2x) 

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