Stephen Housden - Tall Man In The Fall Lyrics

He says he don't remember
What he did with you
A surprising snowfall
On this New York avenue
Gonna run to see him
At someone else's expense
Lying for a living
To play out this pretence
Tall man in the fall
He's a Lincoln monument
Standing there for all the world to see
Little bird at his shoulder
Your tiny claws holding tight
Desperate
Lovesick
But you wanna take flight
He's just like the Daddy you never call
Tall man in the fall

He left a fading Polaroid
That you hide from view
"When Will I Be Loved?"
Sings an ageing ingenue
Gonna stroll by his house
Perhaps he'll wander out
Leaving you a penny
In the hand that you've been dealt

Tall man in the fall
He's a modern day Alamo
Cross your heart and step across that line
A Santa Ana breeze is blowing
You'd love to steal from his wife
Get away
Scott free
Go running for your life
But he hesitates in that Southern drawl
Tall man in the fall

He's gonna to write you a play
You'll be perfect as the lead lady's friend
But you won't know that
Until you're around the bend
Words will cut like bullets
The scenes will play too long
The other girl gets all the lines
And be warned
The ending may feel wrong
Be warned
The ending may feel wrong

Tall man in the fall
Cycling to Calvary
Shed a skin to the old life that you knew
There's nothing left, it's finished
He laughs at your disbelief
Juliet
Dying
His road is paved with grief
And your team of wild horses slow to a crawl
For that tall man in the fall
That tall man in the fall
That tall man in the fall
Tall man in the fall