And So We Fall

And So We Fall is a song released on 25 September 2020 by The Stupendium.

Description
'Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout', also known as 'Rainbow Jellybean Health and Safety Regulation Abandonment Simulator 2020' tasks you with guiding your very own wobbly little bean person to victory against a sea of other wacky little tic-tac people in a series of questionably 'safe' gauntlets for the viewing pleasure of the audience of an ominously technicolour and vaguely defined TV contest.

In short, it's a sugary sweet and wholesome foam padded battle royale and you just know that means I had to find some darker twist on it. Who said the 'Guys' really enjoy falling that much...?

I'm moving house! As I type this I sit among my life organised and squeezed into towers of boxes, flanked by weirdly empty shelves in various stages of re-flat-packing. I wasn't planning on having a song out this month but then Fall Guys happened and I had this rare gap in my schedule, so I decided to make a simpler video I could create around getting ready to move. (Even if all of my camera equipment weren't in boxes, I don't have a 6 foot bean costume to hand.) Plus I had found this absolute bop of a beat and I couldn't resist using it!

A huge thanks as always to my incredible patrons! To Oxygenn for his mixing work and to Liz for her editing the gameplay sections of the video.

Now, I have about 3 dozen more boxes to fill before the van gets here... See you all on the other side!

Lyrics
Lights. Camera. Action.

Another day in traction.

Of being bashed and whacked

To rack up youtuber reactions

Apparently it’s the fashion

To be lacking in compassion

Require a guy to balance

And then fire at him with cannons

We will smile through the pain

Then climb up and start again

Living someone else’s game

As we tumble to the ground

Planting faces in the pavement

For a stranger’s entertainment

No one said when chasing fame

That the direction would be down

And so we fall

All we’ve ever known is being on TV

And so we fall

Our only home is neon PVC

And so we fall

Ever downward chasing crowns we’ll never see

And so we fall until the day we choose to rise

Scrambling to the mantle

Straddling stacks of tangled ragdolls

Forging forwards on the trampled

Backs of comrades round our ankles

It’s a constant uphill battle

Against logs and giant apples

For some unknown cable channel

We just pray the show gets cancelled

Face-first at the door you’ve chosen

Hoping it’s the one that opens

We’ve no noses to be broken

But our spirits feel the sting

One more baton to the face

At the back end of the race

Never ending fall from grace

Second place don’t mean a thing

And so we fall

All we’ve ever known is being on TV

And so we fall

Our only home is neon PVC

And so we fall

Ever downward chasing crowns we’ll never see

And so we fall until the day we choose to rise

We’d start a union, fight these vertical atrocities

It’s hard to organise at terminal velocity

We won’t stand for being herded for your novelty

Stranded in a technicolour rubber purgatory

And so we fall

Another gungeward plunging to avoid

And so we fall

Another hundred flung into the void

And so we fall

Another bludgeoned lunge though spongey dungeon toys

And so we fall until the day we choose to rise

All we’ve ever known is being on TV

And so we fall

Our only home is neon PVC

And so we fall

Ever downward chasing crowns we’ll never see

And so we fall until the day we choose to rise