Echoes for Years

Verse 1

They saw when I stumbled on the stairs

And they lined up to tell the whole town

Nobody watched when I hit the high wire

Walked the whole line and never looked down

Pre-Chorus

I gave them something worth a standing crowd

Still they comb the wreckage for the falls

Chorus

Dead quiet when I win

Loud when I trip up

Show them the mountain

They laugh at the dust

I land every landing

And nobody claps

But one little stutter

Echoes for years

Post-Chorus

Ha-ha-ha they cheer

Ha-ha-ha my tears

Ha-ha-ha the stage

All quiet the day I made it

Verse 2

They retell the day I lost the game

Frame by frame they replay that mess

The record I broke just disappears

Like it never meant all that much less

Pre-Chorus

I gave them something worth a standing crowd

Still they comb the wreckage for the falls

Chorus

Dead quiet when I win

Loud when I trip up

Show them the mountain

They laugh at the dust

I land every landing

And nobody claps

But one little stutter

Echoes for years

Bridge

Funny how the pity

Rings so much louder

Than every perfect hour

Better than I ever could be

Chorus

Dead quiet when I win

Loud when I trip up

Show them the mountain

They laugh at the dust

I land every landing

And nobody claps

But one little stutter

Echoes for years

Post-Chorus

Ha-ha-ha they cheer

Ha-ha-ha my tears

Ha-ha-ha the stage

All quiet the day I made it