On The Edge of a Cliff

Album: Everything Is Borrowed (2008)
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Songfacts®:

  • Following the debauchery of The Streets previous album The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living, Everything is Borrowed finds Skinner in a happier, more settled mode. He told Rolling Stone magazine that this song along with "Alleged Legends" hold the keys to the record, "because 'On the Edge Of a Cliff' says that 'Life is amazing. Life is as beautiful as they say.'"

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