Story Behind The Song

Babylon is Falling This was written in the middle of the night on the day after all hell broke loose in Los Angeles surrounding the Rodney King verdict. I remember thinking, we've got some stark and sinister contrasts here," comments JD. Living in Southern California during those riots, Pederson assembled a lyrical cast of characters that paint a very bleak and apocalyptic picture of greater Los Angeles. "Nomads roam the boulevard, lost in space. With a lonely exterior that sticks like paste." You know something bad is happening here, but you're taken along for the ride, "so drunk on free will you never could tell."

Lyrics

Babylon is Falling

One foot in heaven, one foot in hell
So much confusion you never can tell
And you know
There's nothing left to burn

City of angels, but I don't know why
Clipped wings on lost souls unable to fly
And you know
There's nothing they can learn

I hear them calling
Babylon is falling down

Nomads roam the boulevard, lost in space
With a lonely exterior that sticks like paste
And you know
There's no place they can turn

Chorus

I could hear a voice as plain as day begging me to stay
But it's a hard fall from grace, and glory's gone in Babylon

I stood up on the sand, so I could see
The beast breathing fire like a dragon on everything he sees

One foot in heaven, but this feels like hell
So drunk on free will, you never could tell
And you know
There's nothing left to burn

Chorus