What Goes Up...
This is also the title of a song on Alan Parsons Project's album Pyramid, and was written, as most were in that time, by Eric Woolfson and Alan Parsons. It is the second track on the album, and the music from the first track, Voyager leads right into this track in one gentle movement, without interruption. It deals with the inevitability of defeat, that nothing is forever, and as such, a rather sad song, but very, very beautiful.
What goes up, must come down
What must rise, must fall
And what goes on in your life
Is writing on the wall
If all things must fall
Why build a miracle at all
If all things must pass
Even a miracle won't last
What goes up, must come down
What must stand alone?
And what goes on, in your mind
Is turning into stone
If all things must fall
Why build a miracle at all
If all things must pass
Even a pyramid won't last
How can you be so sure?
How do you know what the earth will endure?
How can you be so sure
That the wonders you've made in you life
Will be seen
By the millions who'll follow to visit the site
Of your dream?
What goes up, must come down
What goes round, must come round
What's been lost, must be found
Song copyright 1977 Woolfsongs Ltd./Career Music Inc. | 
