Video hit Ben Folds

Ben Folds - Landed

This song is about a guy going out with a girl who is just crazy. She pulled him from his normal life and made him revolve his life around hers, and it was almost like he was not on earth, he was just flying around with her. Now he realizes that he was not the crazy one and he's ready to come back or "land," and he's asking his friend to pick him up from the crazy life he was living because he's ready to leave that life behind.

Ben Folds told MTV news that this song was inspired by a close friend who got divorced. Said Folds: "He went through a really, really rough time with his horrible witch of a wife and then he got out of it. 'Landing' just refers to his flight back to his hometown and so him coming back to being himself."

Typical for Folds, this song sold a lot of internet downloads but got very little airplay.

The lyrics:

We'd hit the bottom

I thought it was my fault

And in a way I guess it was

I'm just now finding out what it was all about

We'd moved to the west coast

Away from everyone

She never told me that you called

Back when I was still, I was still in love

'Till I opened my eyes and walked out the door

And the clouds came tumbling down

And it's bye-bye, goodbye, I tried

And I twisted it wrong just to make it right

Had to leave myself behind

And I've been flying high all night

So come pick me up, I've landed

The daily dramas

She made from nothing

So nothing ever made it right

She liked to push me

And talk me back down

'Til I believed I was the crazy one

And in a way I guess I was

While I opened my eyes and walked out the door

And the clouds came tumbling down

And it's bye-bye, goodbye, I tried

Dragging the sea of a trouble mind

Had to leave myself behind

Singing bye bye, goodbye, I tried

If you wrote me off, I'd understand it

'Cause I've been on some other planet

So come pick me up

I've landed

And you will be so

Happy to know

I've come alone

It's over

While I opened my eyes and walked out the door

And the clouds came tumbling down

And it's bye-bye, goodbye, I tried

Down comes the reign of the telephone czar

It's okay to call

And I will answer for myself

Come pick me up

Come pick me up

I've landed