When the World Falls Apart, Some Things Stay in Place

With the money from her accident

She bought herself a mobile home

So at least she could get some enjoyment

Out of being alone

No one could say that she was left up on the shelf

Its you and me against the world kid she mumbled to herself

When the world falls apart some things stay in place

Levi Stubbs tears run down his face

She ran away from home with her mothers best coat

She was married before she was even entitled to vote

And her husband was one of those blokes

The sort that only laughs at his own jokes

The sort that war takes away

And when there wasn't a war he left her anyway

Norman Whitfield and Barratt Strong are here

To make everything right thatis wrong

Holland and Holland and Lamont Dozier too

Are here to make it all okay with you

One dark night he came home from the sea

And put a hole in her body where no hole should be

It hurt her more to see him walking out the door

And though they stitched her back together they left her heart in pieces on the floor

When the world falls apart some things stay in place

She takes off the Four Tops tape and puts it back in its case

When the world falls apart some things stay in place

Levi stubbs tears run down his face.

Billy Bragg, Levis Stubbs' Tears da Talkin' With the Taxman About Poetry (Go! Discs, 1986)

R.I.P. Levi Stubbs, Four Tops Vocalist
Motown legend and Four Tops lead singer Levi Stubbs passed away in his home today (October 17) following a series of illnesses.

He was 72.