Falling Down Laughing Lyrics - Singles - Jim Carroll

He was feeling invulnerable 

That was foolish but wonderful 

But of course the first one was always free 

He's got one wrist in heaven, one ankle in hell 

Somebody pushed or he just fell 

He's riding the subway watching the lights play 

Red yellow green he's always somewhere in between 

The station he wants, the station he needs, 

And the station where the chickenhawks come to feed 

Refrain: 

Since the worm turned he's learned 

This apple's a blood-filled tear 

And he falls down laughing, he falls down laughing 

He falls down and he disappears 

First he tried to be pure now he just wants a cure 

He's wasted, his skin's sore, he's flat-out poor 

When you live in doubt that's when your luck runs out 

He's on the roof alone, outside the zone 

Now he's on the street again when he calls him then 

Billy just cannot resist 

Now he's an orphan sleeping with the coffins 

Just like oliver twist 

Well since the worm turned . . . 

Billy's tired of the lies, he's turning every fire 

Looking for his own past 

He's limping in the water searching for the quarter 

Inch of clarity 

His future is raining blood like stars 

He's fallen so far behind 

He might as well be blind 

Watching late-night film noir inside of stolen cars 

His tongue stuck frozen to the monkey bars 

His ladder lost it's rungs, billy speaks in tongues 

Every time he's in the clear his past looks back and sneers 

But since the worm turned . . .