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It Isn't How You Fall

from A NORTHERN SOUL by Joe Solo

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I knew an old man who taught me how to fight
Lead with my left and hit em with my right
He said: "Your bark is better than your bite."
And I listened.

He said: "You'll never take em pound for pound
Do that and son you'll end up on the ground.
Keep out their reach until you've worn em down"
And I listened.

He told me: "Sometimes the winning isn't winning.
No, the winning is dealing with defeat."
He said: "You choose to be a loser,
And a loser is beaten when they're beat."

Chorus:
"It isn't how you fall it's how you land
And someday soon you're gonna understand
Until that day I'll show you all I can
But son, it isn't how you fall it's how you land."

I took the bell when I'd took the blows
They blacked my eyes and they broke my nose
I never had the rhythm in my toes
But I listened.
I shook his hand the day I walked away
He'd taught me all I'd need to make my way
And I'm singing him this song tonight to say
That I listened.

I weren't a fighter like the fighters
Who drew my blood and put me on the floor
I never made it in the ring but I could sing
And understood a metaphor

He said: "It isn't how you fall it's how you land
And someday soon you're gonna understand
Until that day I'll show you all I can
But son, it isn't how you fall it's how you land."

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from A NORTHERN SOUL, released February 1, 2021
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Joe Solo Scarborough, UK

Joe Solo is an award-winning musician, writer, poet, activist, broadcaster and washing machine engineer from Scarborough.

Live he has an ever growing reputation as both a performer and raconteur, being thought-provoking, comical and punch-the-air political often in the same breath.

He is not an artist you forget in a hurry.
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