The Law of Falling Down

Intro

Well gather round

I got a tale to tell

About the law that never fails

Verse 1

Bought me a weather balloon from a man in a van

Tied it to my lawn chair with a garden hose

Up I went past the pine tops past the telephone wires

Waving at the birds like a lunatic in clothes

My neighbor hollered something but I couldn't hear a thing

The wind took my sandwich and my left shoe too

I floated past a jet plane and a very confused goose

Thinking this is what the astronauts must do

Chorus

What goes up comes down

Every single time

What goes up comes down

Ask the apple ask the dime

You can fight it you can fake it you can pray

But gravity don't take a holiday

Verse 2

Then the rope began to fray about a mile in the air

And I started doing math I never learned in school

Down came the lawn chair down came my pride

Down came the garden hose like a dangling fool

I hit a trampoline parked in somebody's yard

Bounced me through a wedding and a birthday cake

The bride was not amused the groom just shook his head

I apologized to everyone for gravity's sake

Chorus

What goes up comes down

Every single time

What goes up comes down

Ask the apple ask the dime

You can fight it you can fake it you can pray

But gravity don't take a holiday

Bridge

I tried to climb a ladder to the moon one night

Fell into a chicken coop and lost the fight

I threw a rock up at the sky to prove it wrong

It came back down and hit me like a gong

Verse 3

Now I run a little stand that sells umbrellas and rope

And a pamphlet on the physics of the fall

Folks come from miles around just to hear me say

That the higher that you climb the harder that you call

My cousin tried a pogo stick on top of a hill

Ended up in a pond full of ducks and regret

The ducks they were fine the pogo was not

And that's a lesson I will never forget

Chorus

What goes up comes down

Every single time

What goes up comes down

Ask the apple ask the dime

You can fight it you can fake it you can pray

But gravity don't take a holiday

Post-Chorus

Down down down

Oh it's coming down

Down down down

Yeah it's coming down

Outro

So if you see me floating

Just wave and say goodbye

Cause what goes up comes down

And so will I