[Intro: mandolin] [Verse 1: male vocal] Eighteen thousand feet over Laos, The ramp is open to the black, I go first like I always go, With a ring down in my pack. [Verse 2: female vocal, distant] In Vientiane the river's brown, The lamps are on the quay, I'm reading French in the bathtub In a war that isn't meant to be. [Chorus: duet] Fall, fall through the dark, Follow the green light down, Evermore, evermore, Till your feet are on the ground. [Verse 3: male vocal] The Sarge's chute went streaming, It twisted like a rope, He cut it loose and fell alone On a bedsheet and a hope. [Verse 4: male vocal] We sat where the two streams meet With Dewey's ankle wrapped, And the old man walked in out of the dark, And I said, "You look like hell, Sarge." [Chorus: duet] Fall, fall through the dark, Follow the green light down, Evermore, evermore, Till your feet are on the ground. [Bridge: male vocal, whispered] Three kilometers uphill, I whispered all the way, How she eats with chopsticks, how she laughs, And what I'm going to say. [Female vocal] (Ask me, ask me) [Spoken: low older male voice] I don't remember what I said. [Verse 5: female vocal] There's a letter in your pocket With my name in pencil there, Somebody picked it off the floor And buttoned it back with care. [Final Chorus: duet, full band] Fall, fall through the dark, Follow the green light down, Evermore, evermore, Till your feet are on the ground. [Outro: mandolin alone] [End]
