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Toto: a band that divides public opinion but, despite everything, returns to the music scene after 7 years from their last album of new material “Mindfields” with the intent to convince everyone. The record label changes, becoming the Italian Frontiers for them.
“Falling In Between” is certainly a better album compared to their latest releases, thanks to a Kimball back in shape and the distinctive technique of the musicians.
Everything opens with the title track, a surprise for the band's fans: distorted guitars and a majestic rhythm unlike anything they have done before. The keyboards enrich the track with oriental sounds. “Dying On My Feet” is a 100% Toto piece: prominent keyboards and guitar accompanied by the rest of the band and horns at the end. The third track is called “Bottom Of Your Soul”, chosen as the first single, it could be considered a classic of the band. The atmospheres become more passionate and deep in full Peter Gabriel style.
“King Of The World” is a good Pop composition, and it precedes “Hooked”, which features Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) on the flute, enriching the whole piece. “Simple Life” is not a great track overall, but “Taint The World” represents another peak of the album. The rhythm is fast, and Lukather plays the guitar like he’s the best ever. “Let It Go Easy”, “Spiritual Man”, and “No End In Sight” are three tracks that revisit sounds the band has explored extensively before, but are not of poor quality because of it.
In general, it is a nice album that marks the return of a band that defined the eighties and wants to give advice to those who have always hated them: “Give us a chance by listening to this album, and you won’t regret it”.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Falling in Between (04:06)
I've just got to find
Find a way, back home to you girl
Life's been Hell to pay
I can't disobey,
Gotta live in my world
Chorus I
I hear voices calling
From the faces never seen
Darkness all around me
I am falling in between
You've been lookin' down
Down to the ground
On everything I say girl
Hope just can't be found
I'm so gagged and bound
Because of you girl
Chorus II
I hear voices calling
From the places I have been
Love and understanding
Only flows from deep within
Darkness that surrounds me
I am falling in between.....
02 Dying on My Feet (06:11)
Dying on my feet
Sure beats living on my knees
These hands around my neck
They get tighter as you squeeze
I'd crawl across the water, baby
Just to get away from you
Take my life but make it shorter
Seems the least that you could do
Reach out
Someone reach out to me
Cause I've lost my way
Sometimes we
Give into things, when we lie and cheat,
Say things
My life's crumblin' down
Time for me to pray
Hold me in
Deep inside, cause I'm dying on my feet
Life is hard
But I think, "Compared to what?"
Can't see the things you get to
But deserve just what you got
Will you still forgive me baby
If I don't come back for more
Everything that ever mattered baby
Is locked behind your door
Can't judge
Things I don't understand
Since you walked away
Easy to
Feel this way,
Cause I'm back on the street, well
Life is
A game you can't win
You can only play
Here I am
I'm just dyin,
I'm just dyin,
I'm just dyin!
Instrumental Break
Reach out
Someone reach out to me
Cause I've lost my way
Sometimes we
Give into things, when we lie and cheat,
Say things
My life's crumblin' down
Time for me to pray
Hold me in
Deep inside, cause I'm dying,
I'm just dyin', I'm just dyin'
03 Bottom of Your Soul (06:58)
Where are the children we lost not long ago
Feel for the Mothers who weep for them
I pray for the Fathers who are standing by their side
In their world of pain and suffering
Have you ever seen the look in a hungry child's eyes
They can't eat money or promises
Give them your smile and try holding out your hand
Let them know you're there, let them know you're there
kertosäe:
Why is it always the ones that we love
Are the ones that will never come home
Why must all of the bridges we cross take their toll
Always remember the voice in your head
Speaks to you when you're alone
And it comforts you
From the top of your heart to the bottom of your soul
You can swim in a river of tears they cry
For they sleep on the winds of uncertainty
Show us a sign and make us believe again
There's no other way, oh, there's no other way
kertosäe (2x)
05 Hooked (04:36)
Gimme some beer,
Gimme some fear,
Reality and fame
Money from you
Money for them
Billions being made
You think you got a real deal
All you're buyin' is a fifth wheel
They gotcha by the ying yang
More dollar for the big bang
And when you have to have it
Somehow you always find away,
You'll find a way
Then it becomes a habit
You'll rob your late friend's grave
It's sex, it's drugs,
And then we all fall down
Get hooked,
On life
Or join the underground
It's oil, it's guns,
Bad guys we never see
It's war, dead sons,
Be all that you can be
Give it a spin
Maybe you'll win
Nobody's gettin paid
Lightin it up
Shootin it up
Ya really should be afraid
You're lookin' for a new chin
So they tighten up your old grin
All you wanna do is fit in
So they're gonna make you real thin
It's just enough to tease you
They nail you right between the eyes
Nail you right between the eyes
Somehow it will disease you
While you're lobotomized
It's meds, it's feds,
Don't need no PhD's
Load down, those sounds,
We love our MP3's
It's cribs, it's cars
Mercedes BNZ
It's abs, it's carbs
Stop super-sizing me!
It's sex, it's drugs,
And then we all fall down
Get hooked,
On life
Or join the underground
It's crips, it's bloods
It's pimped out S.U.V.'s
It's court, prime time
Those lawyer S.O.B.'s
It's X, It's crack
It's glass and A.D.D.
It's cool, it's wack
I'll pay you back
Your kick, you prick
You get the first one free
You're cuffed, you're hooked,
You're hooked.
07 Taint Your World (04:01)
Screaming at the sun and I might have spilled a little moonshine on my head
Didn't have to run, but there was no one left behind 'cept for the dead
I didn't see it comin', but that rummy-stilted crackpot knew my game
Left my head a'hummin', like a ball peen hammer drives a nail to shame
I suggest you listen up to what I have to say
Witnessed many crooked things, I smell your DNA
Stab me, take me down, you know you'll never get your way
Taint your world
You're so far away from where you think you need to be
Taint your world
Cause you don't want to f**k with me
Didn't anybody get the cipher from that flying rat machine
Gnarly, little, scrunched up, tiny fingers, and its disposition mean
Anybody out of line will soon be on the list
My back's against the wall and yet I know I must resist
Time to tell the truth, I think somebody's gettin' pissed
Taint your world
You're not even close to where you think you need to be
Taint your world
You got another guess comin' if you think you're foolin' me
Instrumental Break
Taint your world
So far away from where you think you need to be
Taint your world
Where I belong just like an oyster and a pearl
Taint your world
You're not even close to where you think you need to be
Taint your world
Taint your world
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By pier_paolo_farina
"Falling In Between should be counted among one of the most substantial and enjoyable works of the fifteen more or less released since 1978 until today."
"It is indeed evident how these songs appear to be the result of group work, the supreme pleasure derived from starting with a single idea... to finally land, contribution after contribution, on the final structure and arrangement."
