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"Fallin'" is a song by American recording artist Alicia Keys. It served as Keys' debut single from her debut album, Songs in A Minor (2001). Written and produced by Keys, it was released by J Records to radio and music video outlets in 2001. The song is generally considered her signature song.
The song attained global success, reaching number-one on the US Billboard Hot 100, and reached the top five in several countries. It also received numerous certifications around the world, and is one of the best-selling singles of 2001. In 2009, the single was named the 29th most successful song of the 2000s, on the Billboard Hot 100 Songs of the Decade. It won three Grammy Awards in 2002, including Song of the Year, Best R&B Song, and Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, and was also nominated for Record of the Year. At the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards the video won Best New Artist.
The song was written by Alicia Keys as the lead single from her debut studio album, Songs in A Minor. When asked about the background behind the song, Keys told Billboard, "I wanted to write a song for someone who was 10 or 12 years old -- like a young Michael Jackson. Even though he was young, he was singing some deep stuff back then. [The song] is about the ins and outs of a relationship. Sometimes, you're completely head-over-heels in love with someone, and sometimes you can't stand that person. You fall in and out, sometimes it goes back and forth, and that's just what relationships are about." The song samples the early James Brown hit, "It's a Man's Man's Man's World."
Fallin may refer to:
I got the feelin' I'm fallin' like a star up in the blue
Like I was fallin' off Niagra in a paddle boat canoe
I got the feelin' I'm a fallin' and it's all because of you
Like I was walkin' on a tight rope ooh swingin' in the breeze
And though I tried to keep my balance when I weaken in my knees
I got the feelin' I'm a fallin' oh lover help me please
Like a leaf falls from the branch like a rock from an avalanche
Like the rain on a stormy day I never thought I'd fall this way
I thought that love could never touch me yeah I was ridin' high
But then my ivory tower toppled and it tumbled from the sky
I got the feelin' I'm fallin' love you're the reason why
Like a liner that he married for like the walls of Jericho
Like Delilah's holy town and samson tore it down
I thought that love could never touch me...
[ guitar ]
Like a liner that he married for...
Honey you're the reason why ah love you're the reason why
Oooh you're the reason why