Everybody Falling (in memoriam shuttle Columbia, STS 107)

from Road Journal: Return from Elsewhere by Arthur Durkee

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“Everybody Falling” was music I was moved to make, as a personal memorial, after the shuttle Columbia disaster, after an apparent heat-shield failure. I thought of bodies falling from the sky, but I also thought of the most poignant image, for me, from when the World Trade Center collapsed on 9/11, not much more than a year before the Columbia fireball. Is luck fate? Is strange luck survival? This song is a lament for everyone who has fallen, and for those who continue to fall.

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Everybody Falling (lyrics)

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Everybody falling
falling down

falling from the blue
falling too

sinking down
into the sea
into the ground

strange luck

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Everybody falling
falling too

fall too far
fall too fast

sink into the sun
arms spread out
sink into the past

strange footprint

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Everybody falling
rising up

rise again
rising into the blue

everybody falling, falling
rising too

strange

(Saint Paul, MN, 2003)

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from Road Journal: Return from Elsewhere, released December 23, 2019
AD: Chapman Stick
vocals
Moog synth

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Arthur Durkee Ann Arbor, Michigan

Arthur Durkee is a composer & songwriter who records & performs on Chapman Stick, bass, analog modular synths, bamboo & wood flutes, keys, frame drums, and voice. He has won awards for composed, notated music as well as for his recordings, & is a published poet, & designer & illustrator. ... more

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