Story Behind The Song
We just liked the unfinished,ambiguous feel of the title "If it comes down."
Song Description
Do you really know what is happening when a relationship is ending? Are you distancing yourself from your decision? What will you do when it finally comes down?
| Song Length |
3:32 |
Genre |
Pop - General, Pop - Rock |
| Tempo |
Medium Fast (131 - 150) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Heartbreaking, Affable |
Subject |
Breaking Up, Heartbreak |
| Similar Artists |
Fleetwood Mac, The Wallflowers |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
If It Comes Down
Have you ever wished you were born in another time?
Heard echoes of footsteps in a narrow hall?
Pictured yourself in a place so far away
With flickering shadows on the rough stone wall?
Waking up and wondering where you are
Is it just a dream or has our love gone too far?
CHORUS
And if it comes down to the wire
If it comes down on you
If it comes down to survival
What will you do?
Will you take back all you gave me?
Turn my heart back into stone?
If it comes down ? if it comes down
Nothing lasts forever, so I'm told
Now you listen for distant voices calling you
While the weight of uncertain fate falls on your soul
And the petal from a rose is falling too
Love is all that matters in some fantasies
Could it that now your heart has no time for me?
CHORUS
Instrumental bridge
CHORUS
Words & music by Bruce & Doug Irving © 2003