1. When you get high enough up off the ground,
Somebody might tell you to not look down.
It’s only natural to be a bit scared of heights.
Don’t let that detract from their delights.
Let the fear flow, a little bit’s essential.
Let your head spin, let it make you tremble.
Take it all in ’til you lose perspective.
The Don’t Look Down school’s too protective.
Dizzy and in awe you stand on the precipice.
It’s too easy to call it recklessness.
Inches from the cliff, it sets the mind reeling
In the best way, don’t fight the feeling.
It’s a long way down, all that empty space
Staring at you right in your pretty face.
If you were to fall, that’d just be it.
We wouldn’t even hear you hit.

Chorus: Do look down! Do look down! Do look down!
All the way down!
Do look down! Do look down! Do look down!
All the way down!
Do look down! Do look down! Do look down!
All the way down!
This could be the last sight you ever see.

2. And maybe one night you follow the call
Out to the Gorge and the waterfall.
You duck under the fence, creep through the trees.
The roar of the falls makes you weak in the knees.
In the middle, white water rushing past your feet,
Tumbling down to the pool, it’s dark but not deep.
Beyond what you can or you can’t accept.
Look down, switch your brain off, and step.
On a day so hot that even your soul sweats,
You head to the local swimming hole to refresh.
It’s under the highway, you stand on the bridge,
Looking thirty feet down at the redneck kids,
Calling up for you to jump, they laugh and splash.
You hop the guard rail, cars pass in a flash.
Gripped with the tension, you envision the plunge.
Look down, look down, look down, now lunge.

Chorus: Do look down! Do look down! Do look down!
All the way down!
Do look down! Do look down! Do look down!
All the way down!
Do look down! Do look down! Do look down!
All the way down!
This could be the last sight you ever see.

Bridge: Whether a canyon’s rim or a mountain ledge,
You’ll know what to do when you’ve found the edge.
Whether a tall tree, bridge, rooftop, or tower,
Reluctant cowards never touch the power
Of a long look down from a frightening height,
Knowing it’s unlikely that you’ll die but you might.
And you can’t really think, you can barely blink,
You just stand there alive, looking down, on the brink.

Chorus: Do look down! Do look down! Do look down!
All the way down!
Do look down! Do look down! Do look down!
All the way down!
Do look down! Do look down! Do look down!
All the way down!
This could be the last sight you ever see. (x2)