Andy Hill, Renee Safier and Hard Rain

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The Fallen Man
(© 1985 Andy Hill)

The sun burned high in the western sky
Casting shadows of a bridge as I drove by
And I thought of the people he knew if they knew him at all
I close my eyes and see him fall

I drove on down the road, I had to cry
I saw a little bit of myself in the boy that died
Now sometimes when daylight's voices still to night time's call
I close my eyes and see him fall

It could have been a woman
It could have been a friend
It could have been lack of both
I guess I'll never understand
From a bridge so high in the time it took to fly
I wonder if he ever changed his mind

As I grow older now and in the mind's eye
Though people's faces change as the years go by
He's an ageless photograph upon my mind's wall
I close my eyes and see him fall

It could have been a woman
It could have been a friend
It could have been lack of both
I guess I'll never understand
From a bridge so high in the time it took to fly
I wonder if he ever changed his mind

When I wonder of the chains upon mankind
Men of innocence and goodwill are men so blind

The sun burned high in the western sky
One face in a holy procession diverts my eye
And I think of the drifters I know hanging on by the thread of it all
I close my eyes and see him fall