Don't Let Me Fall

from Distance and Fortune by Jonny Burke

supported by

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$1 USD
Buy the Full Digital Album

about

wrote this song about five years ago with my buddy Hayes Carll
he put it on his Trouble In Mind album which i'll always be grateful for
kind of a rough patch in my life looking back but at the time it just seemed like another day

lyrics

Jonny Burke (Dedpan Music, BMI) and Hayes Carll (Highway 87 Music, admin. by BUG Music, SESAC)

how many painter's splashed colors on a canvas
to never see it get hung on a wall
never saw in the end what could have been
the greatest painting the world never saw

how many poets felt the hate and the love
and born with desire from the heavens above
how many poets that had all the words
died in the gutter, their songs never heard

chorus
don't let me fall cause i might not get up again
just hold me tighter right now what i need's a friend
i've come too far for this to be the end
so don't let me fall cause i might not get up

i've walked the highway since i can't remember
cutting my poor family right down to the bone
from the shadows of hell to the winds of december
layed down with a stranger woke up all alone

god knows i've tried to hold onto a feeling
a song or a memory to keep in my heart
i've asked forgiveness from those i've forsaken
forgiveness don't come and it tears me apart

chorus

killing this pain outside in the rain
one hand holds a bottle, one hand holds my shame
i don't know which comes first
i don't know which is worse
riding behind or inside the hearse

chorus

credits

from Distance and Fortune, released February 22, 2011

license

about

Jonny Burke Austin, Texas

jonnyburke.com

contact / help

Contact Jonny Burke

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Report this track or account

If you like Jonny Burke, you may also like:

Fuzz Machine
by Marc Ford

supported by 7 fans who also own “Don't Let Me Fall”

Feels like we're listening to Marc Ford out in the wild on this one and it's a glorious thing! the_nw_yeti
go to album
Cafe Boogaloo 10/31/08
by Marc Ford & the Neptune Blues Club

supported by 7 fans who also own “Don't Let Me Fall”
go to album
Claremont Folk Music Center 8/30/08
by Marc Ford & the Neptune Blues Club

supported by 7 fans who also own “Don't Let Me Fall”
go to album
Changes Happen To Everyone, Everywhere
by Chet Sounds

Recorded in a shipping container, the Australian artist's quirky second album is a love letter to 70’s classic rock, folk, and psychedelia. Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 15, 2023
go to album
Lemona and Swan Song (Remastered)
by Giant Drag

These remastered EPs are complicated vessels for understanding Giant Drag and its impetuous frontwoman, Annie Hardy. Bandcamp Album of the Day Jun 9, 2021
go to album
24th Street Blues
by Tom Heyman

Tom Heyman documents life in San Francisco circa 2023, refusing to succumb to easy characterization & instead capturing the city’s nuance. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 22, 2023
go to album
S.O.S. (Save Our Studio) A Benefit Album
by The Compound Studio

supported by 6 fans who also own “Don't Let Me Fall”
go to album