The rock is gonna fall on us
He woke with a start
And he ran to his mother
The fear dark in his heart
And he told her of the vision
That he was sure he'd seen
She said go back to sleep son
You're having a bad dream
Silly child
Everybody knows the rock leans over the town
Silly child
Everybody knows that
It won't tumble to the ground
Silly child
Remember chicken little said
The sky was falling down
Silly
Well nothing ever came of that
The world still whirls around ahhh
The rock is gonna fall on us
He stood and told the class
The professor put his chalk down
And peered out through his glasses
But he went on and said
I've seen it high up on the hill
If it doesn't fall this year
Then very soon it will
Crazy boy
Everybody knows the rock leans over the town
Silly child
Everybody knows that
It won't tumble to the ground
We've more important studies
Than your fantasies and fears
Crazy boy
You know that rock's been perched up
There for a hundred thousand years yee
The rock is gonna fall on us
He told the magistrates
I believe that we can stop it
But the time is getting late
You see I've done all the research
My plans are all complete
He was showing them contingencies
When they showed him to the street
Just a madman
Everybody knows
The rock leans over the town
Just a
Everybody knows
That it won't tumble to the ground
Just a
Everybody knows
Of those who say the end is near
Everybody knows
That life goes on as usual around here yee
He went up on the mountain
Beside the giant stone
They knew he was insane
So they left him all alone
He'd given up enlisting help for
There was no one else
He spent his days devising ways
To stop the rock himself
One night while he was working
Building braces on the ledge
The ground began to rumble
The rock trembled on the edge
The rock is gonna fall on us
Run or you'll all be crushed
And indeed the rock was moving
Crumbling all to dust
He ran under it with one last hope
That he could add a prop
And as he disappeared the rock came to a stop
The people ran into the street
But by then all was still
The rock seemed where it always was
Or where it always will be
When someone asked
Where he had gone they said
Oh he was daft
Who cares about that crazy fool
And then they'd start to laugh
But high up on the mountain
When the wind is hitting it
If you're watching very closely
The rock slips a little bit
