Album: Billy Talent II (2006)

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• In a crooked little town, they were lost and never found
  Fallen leaves, fallen leaves, fallen leaves on the ground
  
  I hitched a ride, up to the coast
  To leave behind, all of my ghosts
  Searching for something, I couldn't find at home
  
  Can't get no job, can you spare a dime?
  Just one more hit and I'll be fine
  I swear to God, this'll be my one last time
  
  In a crooked little town, they were lost and never found
  Fallen leaves, fallen leaves, fallen leaves on the ground
  Run away before you drown or the streets will beat you down
  Fallen leaves, fallen leaves, fallen leaves on the ground
  
  When it gets dark, in Pigeon Park
  Voice in my head, will soon be fed
  By the vultures that circle round the dead
  
  In a crooked little town, they were lost and never found
  Fallen leaves, fallen leaves, fallen leaves on the ground
  Run away before you drown, or the streets will beat you down
  Fallen leaves, fallen leaves, fallen leaves on the ground
  
  I never once thought, I'd ever be caught
  Staring at sidewalks, hiding my track marks
  I left my best friends or did they just leave me
  
  In a crooked little town, they were lost and never found
  Fallen leaves, fallen leaves, fallen leaves on the ground
  In a crooked little town, they were lost and never found
  Fallen leaves, fallen leaves, fallen leaves on the ground
  Run away before you drown or the streets will beat you down
  Fallen leaves, fallen leaves, fallen leaves on the ground
  
  Run away before you drown
  Fallen leaves, fallen leaves, fallen leaves on the ground
  Run away before you drown
  Fallen leaves, fallen leaves, fallen leaves on the ground Writer/s: Aaron Solowoniuk, Ben Kowalewicz, Ian D'sa, Jon Gallant
  Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 9

• Nyx from TexasI wish that everyone is okay and doing well, that’s all, have a good day/night.
• Scot from Port MoodyI lived in an apartment across from Pigeon Park for a while in the 90s. Yah this was the center of the blight and depression that has never been solved. There were no street camps back then but many drowned there, lost and never found. Bad heroine came rolling though and everyone tried to get clean or die. I left town in '98 just as the pig farmer story broke. Never heard of Billy Talent until I came back to BC twenty years later. This songs for real.
• Dennis from Toronto, OnOkay let me correct you and introduce my old self. I am the Base Guitars Father in Law. Jon use to live in my house while he was building his Condo. I love him like my own son. Fallen Leaves is about the Heroin Addicts in Vancouver. During the recording of their first album they stayed in an inexpensive hotel right beside the Grandville Bridge. In the morning the Junkies were looking through the garbage bins for Breakfast. If you ever have been too Vancouver you would likely remember the worlds biggest maple Leaves. The Park mentioned in the song is real, the suffering is real and the Junkies leave their folks out to the coast... Go to, Devil at Midnight Mass, Nothing too Loose, and Killer Bees and I will tell you more.
• Carol from Toronto, OnThis is an awesome song!!!
  
  Even though my father calls BVilly Talent
  Billy got no talent xD
  i still love Billy Talent!
• Austn411 from Va. Beach, Vagood meaning+good sound=amazazing song
• Taylor from Kelowna, CanadaI love this song, and i think that its good that they did a song on how bad drugs are for you and everything, im listing to it right now!
• Emma from Brisbane, AustraliaThis is a killer its F#*King awesome so is the band so yeah
• Natalie from Saskatoon, CanadaI LOVE THIS SONG AND BILLY TALENT..they rock!! all you who don't like them are CRAZY..and what r u tlaking about..they are AMAZING live!!!!
  
• Ryan from Ottawauh dude i listen to system of a down and pink floyd also and i have Billy Talent 1 also. Take a chill pill seriously it's just a song. if you don't like it then you dont have to read it.

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