Falling In Love

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A poetic look at what it’s really like to fall in love and lose your “boundaries,” Paige matches the melody, which “falls” with the lyrics, “Here I am falling, falling…”.

Paige wrote and performed her original song using a little-known open G – drop C tuning on her rich-toned Martin guitar, starting with an Em9 chord to set the stage for “collapsing boundaries” and “crashing egos”. She writes from the experience of losing one’s self when falling in love, as well as flying high. “You take me up like a pilot… ” and the scary fear of “But what’s the landing… ?” The bridge of the song happily reminds us about losing sleep because we’re smiling too much and the “stone-carved memories” to come. “Falling In Love” has also been recorded by Ashley Elise, who loaned her voice for the background vocal just before the 3rd verse.

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Falling In Love

1. My boundaries are collapsing — my ego crashing, too
Do I extend past my skin when I wrap my mind ‘round you?
I studied every map I had to find not where, but who
Here I am falling, falling, falling in love

2. Emotions come to me just from the postures you assume
The way you stood and loosened your tie in my dining room
I struggle to act normally while my frail love hopes to bloom
Still, I am falling, falling, falling in love

Bridge: So full of love, I cannot eat
And I smile so much that I cannot sleep
Come on over to my door and give me
Another stone-carved memory to keep, memory to keep

3. You take me up like a pilot — I’m miles from the ground
Gliding without engines, and soaring with no sound
But what’s the landing if the safety net of love can’t be found?
Still I am falling, falling, falling in love... in love —

From Blog, May 4, 2021: The Story Behind the Song, "Falling In Love":

I wrote my first love song when I fell in love with Robbie in the 7th grade. Since then, I've written many more, but I think "Falling In Love" is my favorite. It gets down into the "meat" of what it's like to lose control of your life because you are so focused on another person. The opening lines are "My boundaries are collapsing, my ego crashing too. Do I extend past my skin when I wrap my mind 'round you?" As you can see in the photograph above, my shoulders are disappearing into the white background, similar to the feeling of disappearing from my life and myself into thoughts about the person I love. Not only do "boundaries," — a sense of self — start to melt away, one's ego takes a beating as well.

The bridge of the song illustrates, "So full of love, I cannot eat, and I smile so much, I cannot sleep..." and a love that is new can be distracting to the point of being disruptive to our lives. Have you ever smiled so much you couldn't fall asleep? It has happened to me.

The third verse of "Falling In Love" is a visual description of love without a parachute: "You take me up like a pilot. I'm miles from the ground. Gliding without engines, and soaring with no sound." Yes, we often describe someone who is in love as "floating on air". But it is downright frightening if you have to jump out of the plane: "But what's the landing if the safety net of love can't be found?" Nobody ever wants to crash.

Oh, LOVE, sweet love! Romantic love can be wonderful one minute and the most emotionally painful experience on earth the next. Is it worth the risk? Look at a successful marriage of someone you know, and you'll know it is definitely worth everything. You are welcome to download "Falling In Love", but I HOPE you will add it to your playlist. How DO you listen to music these days? Please send me an email and let me know. For me, the days of cassette tapes and CDs are long gone. If you listen via Spotify, click HERE for the link to "Falling In Love" and if you like the song, please click and give me one of those little hearts.

By the way, dear reader, I just HAVE to give you this StarWars greeting for today: "May the 4th be with you!" Someone sent it to me today in an email and I had to smile — it's just so cute!.

May the 4th be with you!

Your local singer-songwriter, Paige Powell

P.S. Exciting update June 17, 2021 : "Falling In Love" is now my #1 most-listened-to song on Spotify!
I earned $1.26 from ASCAP last week!