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Watching Me Fall


Yeah I've been watching me fall
For what seems like years
Watching me grow small
I watch me disappear
Slipping out my ordinary world
Out my ordinary eyes
Yeah, slipping out the ordinary me
Into someone else's life
Into someone else's life...

There's a thin, white, cold new moon
And the snow's coming down
And the neon bright tokyo lights
Flicker through the crowd
I've been drifting around for hours
And I'm lost and I'm tired
When a whisper in my ear
Insatiable breeze
Why don't you follow me inside

The room is small
The room is bright
Her hair is black
The bed is wide
And the night is always young
Is always young
Always young
The night is always young

Yeah, I've been seen stripped to the bone
In the mirror on the wall
Seeing her swallow it whole
Like its not me at all
She holds out her hands
And I follow her down to my knees
And the sucking inside
Insatiable smiles
You will forget yourself in me

The room is small
The room is bright
Her eyes are black
The bed is wide
And the night is always young
And the night goes on and on
And the night is always young
And the night is never over
And over and over and over and over
And then its gone
And then its gone
Yeah, then its gone

Yeah its a cruel, mean, cold new day
And outside the snow is still coming down
And in the blood red tokyo bed
I watch me coming round
She pulled him down for hours
Deeper than I've ever been
And as I fall in the mirror on the wall
I'm watching me scream
I'm watching me scream
I'm watching me scream
I'm watching me scream

Yeah, I've been watching me go
For it must be years
Watching me get slow
I watch me disappear
And one day, yeah I know
I won't come back at all
And always over and over
In his ordinary eyes
I'm watching me fall
I'm watching me fall
I'm watching me fall
I'm watching me fall

 
Robert on 'Watching Me Fall'...

"'Watching Me Fall' is very much 'Open' Part II…. My home demo version is actually twenty minutes and I slashed it in half ! I did it as kind of my 'Seven Ages of Man' (laughs) but unfortunately it ended up sounding a bit like Meat Loaf ! I thought that the scope was a bit too grand - it was supposed to encompass my entire career. In the end I just focused it down to one night, I thought that was long enough ." (Rip It Up New Zealand music magazine - February 2000)

"In the opening line, 'I have been watching me fall, for what seems like years,' that pertains to one particular instance which happened to me a long, long time ago. I used some of the imagery of how I remembered it. It was also taken from an article I read about the drug Rohipnol and date rape. I used to take Rohipnol always on planes. It would make me not really care if we fell out of the sky. It removed any anxiety. It helped me overcome, not quite a phobia, but I was incredibly loath to get on a plane for seven years. It helped me break through that barrier. I found the outcry that surrounded Rohipnol was a lot of it rubbish basically. The senses that I experienced were not like that. Not that I was ever date raped, but the images that they used were quite powerful, the testimony of the women involved. I used some of that and wove it in with this particular experience, then tried to marry to the idea of what I sometimes perceive as my own decline over the years since Disintegration. I tried to put myself in context to how I felt then and how I feel now." (Is There No Cure, Jet Lounge - Atomic Pop Online, 10/3/2000, Ken Micallef)