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The Spencer Davis Collection
Lot 20

A Spencer Davis Lyric Sheet for "Stop Me, I'm Falling"

13 – 22 January 2025, 12:00 PST
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A Spencer Davis Lyric Sheet for "Stop Me, I'm Falling"

Autograph Manuscript, 3 pages, folio, New York, August 18, 1967, untitled, but containing preliminary lyrics for the spoken section of "Stop Me, I'm Falling."

"Stop Me, I'm Falling" appears on the 1968 album With Their New Face On. The present manuscript, written in New York in 1967, contains most of the spoken word section that appears at the end of the song, plus additional lyrics that did not make it onto the record. In part: "You look into the humanity idea, / Miles outside and above your head, / looking into it, for a reflection of your own face! / You sit in your room, filled with yourself / Tainted by the laughter of quicksilver thoughts / Sometimes behind and sometimes in front of you / Surrounded by book end buildings, / Full of tottering people, and you rise / And wonder restlessly through something / That wasn't quite the same, / As when you were born! / Though the same word is used."

The manuscript continues: "And in a thunder and lightning storm / God cried with me. / You looked at all the cardboard people / who tripped you up, and said, 'Excuse me!' / politely! / And the other words they used bore heavy / on your head ... / Till you BURST!!"

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