Man on a Bridge

from Don't Try This at Home by Acoustic Fingers

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This song is the one I hear mentioned the most among fan-favorites from this disc. I wrote it about a bridge jumper I saw in Pittsburgh many years ago. The whole scene was so surreal that I went home, picked up the guitar and out came this song. I added the electric guitar, thinking I would finish the tracks with a full band but decided to release it exactly as it was. This wound up the ONLY song on the disc with an electric guitar.

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MAN ON A BRIDGE

There's a man on a bridge
Standing high in the wind
And everybody's wondering who he is

There's a crowd gathered 'round
Peering into the clouds
All waiting to see how he comes down

But birds fly
In the blue skies
Around him

Who are you?

There's a man on a bridge
And he's stepping to the edge
And everyone is wondering how this ends

Now the roads have been closed
Underneath in circling boats
The police are preparing for the worst

Still birds fly
In blue skies
Around him

Who?

Red engines have arrived
They raise a ladder to his side
The hours passing by
Above the flashing lights

There’s nowhere left
There's nowhere left to
There’s nowhere left to go
But down

Come Down
Come Down
Come Down
Come Down

Was a man on a bridge
Now they've taken him in
And I wonder if we'll see him there again

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from Don't Try This at Home, released June 22, 2012

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