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, released as the first single from the band's third studio album '' Volume 3: Further in Time''. The song features vocals from

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, and members of Screaming Orphans. The song's music video, directed by Adam Berg, features a man falling from the sky until he eventually falls through the ground, where he continues to fall until he eventually falls out of Earth.

appears three times during the music video, as an airplane pilot, a man inside a building, and a man walking on the street. Following the

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in the United States, ''

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'' reported that Clear Channel Communications distributed a memorandum to various program directors. The memorandum contained a list of over 150 songs that they believed contained "questionable lyrics", with one of those songs being "When You're Falling". The vice president of programming at Clear Channel had assembled the list for radio programmers and advised them to exercise restraint when selecting songs to broadcast.

Track listing

CD single (UK) # "When You're Falling" (Short radio edit) – 3:44 # "When You're Falling" (Wren & Morley Mix) – 4:35 # "When You're Falling" (Album version) – 5:16 # "When You're Falling" (video) Promo CD single (UK) # "When You're Falling" (Short radio edit) – 3:40 # "When You're Falling" (Long radio edit) – 4:14 Promo CD single (US) # "When You're Falling" (Short radio edit) – 3:40 # "When You're Falling" (Long radio edit) – 4:14 # "When You're Falling" (Album version) – 5:14 # Call-out hook

Charts

References

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