2007 (74th) Best Song: “Falling Slowly”


2007 (80th Annual Awards, 74th Best Song)
Best Song Lyric


Falling Slowly
I don’t know you,
But I want you
All the more for that.
Words fall through me
And always fool me
And I can’t react.
Games that never amounted
To more than they’re meant
Will play themselves out.

Take this sinkin’ boat and point it home,
We’ve still got time.
Raise your hopeful voice, you have a choice,
You make now.

Falling slowly, eyes that know me
And I can’t go back.
Moods that take me and erase me
And I’m painted black.
Well, you have suffered enough
And warred with yourself.
It’s time that you won.

Take this sinkin’ boat and point it home,
We’ve still got time.
Raise your hopeful voice, you have a choice,
you’ve made it now.

Fallin’ slowly,
Sing your melody,
I’ll sing it loud.

Take it all.
I paid the cost too late,
Now you’re gone.