When my spirit is broken And my mind is a mess And I can find no one to hold me Screaming to their chest When my fire fades to embers And I cannot protest I've heard That's where you love me best When my failures they find me And my history shows And you can see the many missteps And all the brutal blows When all the lying voices Join in chorus and it grows I've heard That's when you love me most And I am a falling thing Like autumn's golden leaves Turn, and turn. and watch it burn The colors of a second birth And I'll fall down gracefully When I cling to the wreckage And I cannot let go While the vessel that once carried me Sinks twenty leagues below When I'm floating free in a distance sea A million miles alone I've heard You've never been so close And I know your love is drawing me close And I am a falling thing Like autumn's golden leaves I turn, and turn. and watch it burn The colors of a second birth And I'll fall down gracefully 'Cause I am a falling thing Like autumn's golden leaves Turn, and turn. and watch it burn The colors of a second birth And I'll fall down gracefully Mmm...