Before The Fall
“Those who continue to go with the flow usually end up going over the fall”
Let us all hope we still have time to wake the hell up 😉
Before The Fall
Words and Music by Tom Tognaci
Before the fall, I didn’t care to know
What peril may lie up ahead,
While going with the flow
Swept away beyond and on and on, and on and on, and on and on …..
….I should have seen
The signs all around me
From the calm, into the rapid’s squall
From the omens we ignored
To that one last final call
Right before the fall
Before the fall, I failed to take a stand
When they came for the retrogrades,
they weren’t my fellow man
So, the purge went…… one by one, by one, by one, by one, by one, by one …..
….Each time they came,
they came for someone new
With each time, I’d pretend not to see
And, when they kicked at my door,
there was no one left for me…
….who’d stand up for me.
Before the fall, I did not understand
Me, in my ordinary life, just living out my plan
While the world spun ‘round and ‘round, and ‘round and ‘round, and ‘round and ‘round, and ‘round ….
Comments
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I get an "ignorance is not bliss" message from it. I can't link it to any specific "fall", and suspect that's deliberate, but it does make it a bit more abstract.
The sound is really clean and polished. I'm guessing this is tracking closely against your input recording, because it really feels like you both playing and the cadence in the singing.
This isn't my favorite from you, but it's still a solid track.
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Depends on what we need to wake the hell up from :).. but great job taking a poem and expanding on it an making it your own without losing the meaning :)
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I think we did wake up and realized the economy sucks
Sounds good Tommy boy
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Hi Rainy... Abstract?
Yeah maybe... but not for all of us news junkies 😎
Civil war, WW3, the apocalypse... take your pick
Thanks, for stopping by. This does follow very closely to the input of my home recording. But they all do.... with exception of 1 or 2.
Both sides are either claiming to be awake or woke... pick a side 😎
Thanks, B
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We've been through crap before, and again, the cycle repeats. regardless of who's in charge, we'll survive :)
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pretty much just deferent thieves
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Hola @IronKnee
Wonderful version, did I know this one? Another original version before? Well, I enjoyed it all but became a bit sad... Deep lyrics, clear message, at least, at the end, we will all become castaways in any flow going to the fall......
Great story! sniff !!
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nice sound and melody. i like the the progressive chorus and how you did the last line of each (on and on and on...)
something to consider : i feel like the story begins and ends in the same place.
beginning = didn't know/ go with the flow...
middle= should have seen the signs/ should have took a stand...
end=didn't understand/ just living life.
i think would be stronger if there was more closure or timeline of events. before the fall...he didn't know, during the fall... he started to see signs, after the fall...he is doing/learned this. Just a suggestion.
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Thanks, M... It's a woeful story with what could happen. Human nature... can rise to incredible love; but also, can become as ugly as ever imagined.
Hi MuskieBait44...
As the story begins, a personal reflection, "going with the flow" seems a normal life. As the song progresses, the consequences with such lack of concern is lamented by with all that was around us leading to the fall... the signs, the omens... the street violence and turbulence. If only somehow, I was more vigilant, more caring... maybe things wouldn't have been taken so far.
The last verse is one final reflection with how a lack of caring and a lack of action lead us down the wrong path.
Perhaps, the song might make better sense, if you were to think of the narrative as a confession 🤨
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I LOVED the lyric. . . Not because I could tell which "side you are taking" but because I couldn't tell. An in-depth look that is serious and intellectual often sounds more like a question than an answer. A well written, but vague "confession" (your word) will often leave observers wondering and will have them "putting themselves" into the equation. When that happens, each "side" will often assume the lyrics/words are agreeing with themselves. That it doesn't spell out the "answer" to the "question" in unmistakeable terms is (in my opinion) the genius of it. I don't have to "solve" a mystery to be able to enjoy it. There is no shortage of songs that have been very successful providing songs with mysterious or indecipherable meanings. One example would be Don McClean's "American Pie."
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Thanks H... For the very generous crit. 😎
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I like this lyric... I feel like the tempo is a little slow, it would almost benefit from more of a Springsteen live-rave-up treatment - if you do SUNO would be an interesting thing to try
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Great song about your uninvited king and his actions. Your voice carries the song and the pain. Super good. I had to wipe away a tear.The melody and your style
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Thanks JG... I appreciate you stopping by. The tempo is where I wrote it, and it seems natural to me. I'm not terribly familiar w/ Springsteen, so I'll just leave it be. Thanks, again!
Hi Rem... And thank you as well! Not sure what you are meaning with your first comment, but I'm happy to hear you like the song enough to keep it on a list!
Thanks, again!
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I'm never "generous" with a critique. I'm just honest. If I say it, I mean it. The extent of my generosity is that if I don't like something, I won't say anything about it.
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I hear ya... and thanks!
loved your latest offering, BTW!
Awesome.
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