He was ashen faced and trembling
As he stood there at the door
He said "help, come quick please call the cops
A guy's fallen from the 25th floor"
And we ran out into the sunshine
A crowd was gathering across the street
And there behind the scaffolding
We could see two twisted feet
Well the crowd was not a large one
But they were mumbling to themselves
"My God" said one "how did it happen?"
You know he didn't even scream as he fell
It was a multi story construction
And the lift begun to fall
He'd tried to jump onto a landing
But h e'd hit the building wall.
And it was just another death in New York City
Just another page for the cororners file
His name was Edward something
I looked it up in the Times, the New York times
He had a wife and some children
He was all of 35.
And as we waited for the ambulance
And the rescue squad to arrive
There were two little kids getting all excited
"Hey man he tried to fly"!
He must have though he was superman
This is just like a m, movie scene
But the tears of his shaken work mates
Weren't scripted for a movie screen.
And a woman took out a camera
And she shot the whole damn thing
She took pictures of the body and the building
She took pictures of anything
She clicked at the rescue workets
As they wrapped him in a canvas bag
She took pictures of his weeping partner
She took pictures of the US flag
And after they had taken him
I heard a woman say
"Well that's why they get danger money
You know they earn a heap of pay"
But the thing I remember clearly
And I'll hear it til the day I die
Was two little kids getting all excited
"HeyMan he tried to fly!"