Man On The Edge

Album: The X Factor (1995)
Charted: 10
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  • Alright, the story about a briefcase, a lunch, and a man on the edge

    The freeway is jammed and it's backed up for miles
    This car is an oven and baking is wild
    Nothing is ever the way it should be
    What we deserve we don't get, you see

    A briefcase, a lunch, and a man on the edge
    Each step he's closer to losing his head
    Is someone in heaven? Are they looking down?
    Nothing is fair, you look around

    Falling down
    Falling down
    Falling down

    Falling down
    Falling down
    Falling down

    He's sick of waiting, of lying like this
    There's a hole in the sky for the angels to kiss
    Branded a leper because you don't fit
    In the land of the free you just live by your wits

    Once he built missiles, a nation's defense
    Now he can't even give birthday presents
    Across the city he leaves in his wake
    A glimpse of the future a cannibal state

    Falling down
    Falling down
    Falling down

    Falling down
    Falling down
    Falling down, yeah

    The freeway is jammed and it's backed up for miles
    This car is an oven and baking is wild
    Nothing is ever the way it should be
    What we deserve we just don't get, you see

    A briefcase, a lunch, and a man on the edge
    Each step he's closer to losing his head
    Is someone in heaven? Are they looking down?
    Nothing is fair, you look around, sing it with me

    Falling down
    Falling down
    Falling down

    Falling down
    Falling down
    Falling down

    Falling down
    Falling down
    Falling down

    Falling down
    Falling down
    Falling down, yeah, yeah Writer/s: Bayley Cooke, Janick Gers
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 3

  • Dan Gillespy from Courtenay BcA good song about a man who is down on his luck that finally snaps and goes on a violent rampage.
  • Jordan from St.catharines, OnI myself never really enjoyed Blaze Bayleys time in Maiden but he did do some very good performances and this song is I believe his best work with Maiden all around a very good tune
  • Ringgo from Montclair, CaAh...yes...the best song Blaze Bayley ever done with Maiden, IMHO. I hated the movie that inspired it, but love this song. I even wrote a parody version of this, but based on the movie "Office space". I called the song "Burning down"..pretty funny. Anyways, awesome tune, and showed Bayley can belong with the Maiden boys.
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