Buy “stumbling”, get a “fall” free!
Posted: December 9th, 2003 | 3 Comments »While reeling from the pain of the latest spillage from MTV’s favourite waste of functioning kidneys Good Charlotte I noticed that, for the second time in a year, they had used the common lyrical cliché phrase “stumble and fall”. Is it just me, or do variations on that phrase get used all over pop lyrics? The obvious reference is Ben E. King’s “Stand By Me” but also Everclear’s “Everything To Everyone” and the Stereo MC’s “Connected”, as well as the titles of songs by The Mamas And The Papas, Xymox and No Fun At All. Oh, and these. Any others? Any origins? Why must “stumble” always be followed by “fall” in this way? Fire up the DaveGreenSignal! (Oh, and feed Good Charlotte into a woodchipper. Ta.)
So proud that Bolingbroke was on his back!
That jade hath eat bread from my royal hand;
This hand hath made him proud with clapping him.
Would he not stumble? would he not fall down,
Since pride must have a fall, and break the neck
Of that proud man that did usurp his back?
Smartarse.
Oh, and “Stumble and Fall” from Razorlight. Soon to be over-played on an XFM near you.