All Fall Down
Words and Music by John Fischer and Dan Russell
All fall down
Pieces on the ground
All fall down
Pieces on the ground
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They live in high places
They’re keeping everybody under
They smile with two faces
But they can’t hear the coming thunder
The pride and the glory
The imposition and the power
The right hand, the left hand
The clock hand turning in the tower
The walls of this city
A fortress keeping us apart
The law with no pity
Around a barricaded heart
All fall down
Pieces on the ground
All fall down
Pieces on the ground
Ring around the rosey
Pocket full of posies
Ashes
Ashes
All fall down
He had served as Dean of Students in one of the most elite Christian colleges in the country. The students loved him at a time when there was great tension between students and administration all over the country. His secret was that he was accessible, compassionate and a good listener. He would make it his responsibility to seek out the most disgruntled students on campus, hear their grievances and make them feel their opinions were important. He remembered the name of every student he talked to. He actually did not last long as a dean, and it was said the reason was he was too sensitive. He took the troubles of every troubled student personally, and was soon crushed under the burden. So he went back to teaching, which he loved, and which limited the number of students he had to care for.
Don Williams is 79 years old. He attends a church full of mostly twenty-somethings and his favorite band is a group of three kids in their early twenties from Long Beach who call themselves the 
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