Ruby Falls Lyrics

I take flight on borrowed time

I was once terrified of heights

I say a prayer, I look down and I'm ready to die



If you cross over tonight

You see beyond the darkest sky

You taste the blood as something wild and alive



You might light up in a flash

You won't hold onto a flame

It's a squalid way to live but it's the rules of the game



It ain't your fault

It's just a shame

To fall without aim



I walk down east seventh street

A wistful, wild depravity

Iconoclastic, black and white, dusty and sweet



I tell this story every time

Real love don't follow a straight line

It breaks your neck, it builds you a delicate shrine



You might mourn all that you wasted

That's just part of the haul

Tangling up all your good fortune, bearing the heart of the fall

You won't break it after all



Look at us, man and bride

And a grinding sound

Faithful to a life underground



And when the picture fades the years will make us calm

I'll sing a song at your funeral

Laid in the Mississippi gulf

Or back home at Waxahatchee creek

You know you got a friend in me

I'm an angler married to the sea