Waterfall
10 CC Lyrics

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Gonna meet you on the corner
Gonna take you out of town
Out to where the grass is greener
And no one can be found

Gonna be there in the morning
Gonna take you by the hand
Gonna get out of the city

Gonna get back to the land

Waterfall, and it's fallin' down on me
Waterfall, and it's fallin' down
But it ain't gonna let me be

Gonna be there in the morning
Gonna take you by the hand
Gonna get out of the city
Gonna get back to the land

Waterfall, and it's fallin' down on me
Waterfall, and it's fallin' down
But it ain't gonna let me be

Hey, Waterfall
Hey, Waterfall

Hey, Waterfall
Hey, Waterfall

Overall Meaning

The song "Waterfall" by 10 CC seems to be a romantic theme about escaping hectic city life and getting back to nature with a lover. The lyrics describe the singer meeting the lover at the corner, and taking that person out of town to where grass is greener, and nobody can be found. It's about finding peace and happiness away from the hustle and bustle of the city. The singer repeatedly states that they are going to take the lover by the hand, get out of the city, and get back to the land.

The central theme of the song seems to be the waterfall. It's referenced multiple times throughout the lyrics, and the singer is trying to find some kind of solace through the falling water. However, the repetition of "it ain't gonna let me be" suggests some kind of conflict or turmoil, which adds a layer of ambiguity to the song's meaning. Perhaps the waterfall represents the singer's troubles, and they are trying to find peace amidst it all. Another interpretation could be that the waterfall represents the overwhelming feeling of love that the singer feels towards the lover, and it's impossible for them to escape it.

Line by Line Meaning

Gonna meet you on the corner
I have arranged to meet you at this street junction

Gonna take you out of town
I want to take you away from this city

Out to where the grass is greener
To a place where things are better

And no one can be found
No one will disturb us there

Gonna be there in the morning
I have planned to be there early hours of tomorrow

Gonna take you by the hand
I will hold your hand as a sign of affection

Gonna get out of the city
Let's leave this noisy metropolis

Gonna get back to the land
I miss the beauty of nature and want to enjoy it again

Waterfall, and it's fallin' down on me
The water is pouring down and washing over my body

Waterfall, and it's fallin' down
The water continues to cascade down and show its power

But it ain't gonna let me be
The waterfall overwhelms me with its might and beauty

Hey, Waterfall
I am acknowledging the beauty and power of the waterfall

Hey, Waterfall
I repeat my admiration for the waterfall

Hey, Waterfall
I continue to express my wonder at the waterfall

Hey, Waterfall
I can't get enough of observing the waterfall

Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: GRAHAM GOULDMAN, ERIC STEWART

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Comments from YouTube:

Ian Alterman

2y↑1

A common chord progression that they somehow make their own. Another lovely song from them.

AstraMusicOfficial

9y↑17

Lovely harmonies and the style is so different and melancholy from some of the more tongue-in-cheek stuff. Love the climbing notes on the word "land" at the end of the line. I'm a fan of the great diversity proffered by 10cc.

Alan

2y↑1

Great to hear this again. First came across it on the original 100cc Greatest Hits album back in 1975 but my copy has long since disappeared.

shandy227 shandy227

3y↑1

One of my favourites of 10cc often play it. Such a good song.

redkirk

14y↑3

I've loved this song since I first heard it on the "100cc - Greatest Hits of 10cc" album. Just got the "Live and Let Live" CD in the mail (after having lost the album 30 years ago) and still love listening to the live version as well. I still haven't figured out how to play "Waterfall" or "Fresh Air for My Momma" on the guitar.

Kevin Moss

3y↑3

This should have been on an album

BigCoolViking. G.S.

12y↑3

This is fantastic- it just is!

Virginia Bravo

8y↑4

Amazing track! Thanks for sharing.

PAS

10y↑2

Love this track!

Swedefunkygirl

11y↑1

Love this song <3 !

Siminthesky

6y↑2

i still love this song..thank you Eric. i even loved the band America for singing this ;)

firenza74

12y

Nothing jogs a memory better than listening to B sides.Havent heard this for at least 35 years.

David Lapsley

Just wonderful, thank you so much, 10cc

Kevin Clepps

14y

great band!

uzpuz

3y↑5

great track real music unlike today.music has down the pan.

sct353

12y

This excellent song did get released as an A side in its own right (backed with '4% of something') a couple of years later, but didn't chart - probably because so many people already had it as the B-side of 'Rubber Bullets'.

Phil Cooke

7y↑2

Thanks for sharing, almost forgot about this little nugget, 10cc were superb 1972-77 best stuff

Jeff Broders

3y↑5

1st song 10cc ever recorded according to Graham Goldman in Mojo interview

ian macdonald

6y↑8

great record by a super group

Tony Ward

12y

When I first heard this on a vinyl juke box back in 1974/75 I was convinced it was CSN&Y - I was gobsmacked when I found out who it really was - & a B-Side!!! - fab

yamahonduki

13y

i played this more than the a side, its an awesome tune in its own right! thanks for sharing this,, i will return to this time and time again.

katkins1957

13y↑14

i love this . I played it more than the a side rubber bullets..x

uzpuz

so did i

ian macdonald

7y↑1

super song sung by a great group

madhusudan shiva

8y↑9

It' the only song I have been hearing for the last 40 years but never got tired, it's always a refreshing song, legendary song

Musical Singh

madhusudan shiva uncle kahan gayab ho... aapka no. bhi nai milta

Krissy Ball

Agree! Listening to my record

mark jones

superb!

Brendan Divall

Remember this, listening to 10cc with my Dad. Coming back to it now, am I the only one who hears a resemblence to Neil Young in the verses?

Swedefunkygirl

11y

Now I see it's a bonustrack on the CD!

j.Simone

3y↑1

my old time favorite

Stevie Dee

5y↑6

Always reminds me of a 10 day holiday in Arenal in Mallorca in 1973....topless birds in the bars at lunchtime. X

Emily Leo

50w↑1

That's my song for now and may it come quick hit 🎯

Stuart Sanderson

12y

You're probably talking from a musical perpective and not a commercial perspective Moses. I can't believe that this song and Hot Sun Rock were never deemed good enough to go on an album apart from Greatest Hits.

John O'Shea

11y

The chord sequence sounds like 3 Blind Mice ....but its very 10CC very wonderful

teresa shepherd

7y↑1

it was because of this song on the b side of rubber bullets i bought their first album and been a fan since

Per A.J. Andersson

13y

@georgeglen I can really see that. This, a tune with quite breath-taking harmonies (oh, those vocals!), Rubber Bullets with all of its beat and tongue-in-cheekiness. Imagine that single got worn out fast... ;-)

keny5564

12y

love 10cc....

Patrick Kadas

14y

A 5 star song: Waterfall - 10cc [Stockport, England] - 1973 - "A British Folk-Psychedelic song with backward guitar riffs at times." - The Best Of The Early Years [Import UK] (Demon Music Group Ltd)-2002. "The first song 10cc recorded following the quartet's decision to abandon session work and form its own band instead, Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman's 'Waterfall' was demoed at the band's own Strawberry Studios in early 1972."

George Glen

14y↑4

I used to Play 'Rubbet Bullets' ... turn it over, play 'Waterfall ... turn it over, play 'Rubbet Bullets' ... turn it over, play 'Waterfall ... turn it over, play 'Rubbet Bullets' ... turn it over, play 'Waterfall ... turn it over, play 'Rubbet Bullets' .. etc. etc. :o) Thanks !

Marlene Lopes

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j pe

I have this 7" single. A side Rubber Bullets and Waterfall on B Side. Waterfall superior to A side. Most singles in the 70's had a better b-side.. A beauty. Heralding the advent of "Yacht"

WoodRatGirl

14y↑3

Yes my father has the 45 of this and Rubber Bullets.

John Convey

8y↑2

Before they were named 10cc they took this to Apple and in case it was picked up Lol and Kev got a b side ready just in case - that was Donna. When JK heard Donna that was it and the rest is history !

Garry Dullaghan

my boy is a new convert to real innovative music .

Ian Fielding

13y

Great to hear again without all the crackle

Tim Hancock

3y↑2

I thought this one of their weaker "formative" offerings. It gave a hint of better things to come though.

Charles Castañuelas Angeles

👍👍👍👍

lizzy cocksedge

7y↑1

post toastee made a really good cover of this song, though currently only found on a cassette tape !!!!

edvinlaine

lizzy cocksedge post toastee had exceptional guitarist singer ✌️

Steve Drakes

7y↑2

I must admit , I preferred this to Rubber Bullets, a fan ever since.

robert gardiner

It really reminds me of Fade To Black ,by Neil young

CP McGuire

This song sounds like Crosby Stills and Nash more than 10cc... interesting. Like billy Joel, these guys are musical chameleons.

Dumfries Spearhead

And Young. More like Young people than anyone else.

antoinekiwi2

11y↑5

I was just about to comment about how much it sounds like CSN&Y!

Martin Wood

They look like (but don't sound like) a prototype System of a Down!

Swedefunkygirl

11y↑1

Why isn't this one on the 10cc Album??

Joyous Squonk

6y↑22

I'm glad I like to go listening to random music. Wouldn't have found this little gem otherwise. at 23, no one in my age group listens to this stuff

J2013

6y↑2

They are missing a lot.

Holden Curren

6y↑1

I am also 23, that makes two of us.

Zipp Husky

I was your age when I discovered these guys about 10 years ago. Great music!
😎🐺

Roland Rodriguez

I was 19 when I first heard this. Still awesome song.

Steven

@Holden Curren make that three

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Dumfries Spearhead

Sounds like Neil Young.

Eoghan Lyng

Is that Godley on lead vocals?

shandy227 shandy227

Yes is is

Heather Ferreira

His vocals remind me a bit of Neil Young here.

Russell Collier

Who sings lead vocal on this, anyone know?

10cc - G&C

I think it's Kevin

Russell Collier

Thanks, what a supurb voice.

Dumfries Spearhead

1y↑1

Sounds like Eric Stewart. It also sounds very Neil Young-esque.

Jonathan Birch

Definitely Eric

sweetieagogo

So much CSN&Y
Hey Hey My My aswell in it.

mike M6XMN

5y↑1

Brill. Recorded at stwaberry studios stockport

Neddy Seagoon

7y↑1

Y'see now, this is the PROBLEM with music streaming interweb sites; offer tracks from albums only, therefore, when it comes to a song released independently of an LP (The Beatles 45s for example) or a little known, though most excellent B side, ie, 'Waterfall', by 10cc, they ain't got it mate, 'ave they?!

jamie wesson

its on the first album

Bruce Hurst aka Zincfreud

13y

Waterfall and Rubber Bullets and 1st album was great, after that yawn!

Neddy Seagoon

7y↑1

ps, perhaps The 'Fabs' are not THE best example of this particular argument, because as like Led Zeppelin, the demand for more, er, 'product' is such that everything they ever recorded ended up being released on a compilation album.

Phuong Weary

You are Smart that's all

Francis DiMenno

Neil Young?

Musical Singh

2018 ??

figbat oswald

13y

whatever happened to 10cc? want to know some juicy gossip i heard about them that they dare not print....go to "hey st peter gnowangerups70s" and read my 3 comments.