"When You're Falling" is a song by world music

World music

World music is a term with widely varying definitions, often encompassing music which is primarily identified as another genre. This is evidenced by world music definitions such as "all of the music in the world" or "somebody else's local music"...

 group Afro Celt Sound System

Afro Celt Sound System

The Afro Celt Sound System is a musical group which fuses modern electronic dance rhythms with traditional Irish and West African music...

, released as the first single fom the band's third studio album Volume 3: Further in Time

Volume 3: Further in Time

Volume 3: Further in Time is the third studio album from Afro Celt Sound System, released June 19, 2001 through Real World Records.-Track listing:# "North" - 6:48# "North 2" - 2:59# "When You're Falling" - 5:14...

. The song features vocals from British singer Peter Gabriel

Peter Gabriel

Peter Brian Gabriel is an English singer, musician, and songwriter who rose to fame as the lead vocalist and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis. After leaving Genesis, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career...

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The song was one of the band's biggest hits and received good amounts of airplay in the U.S. The song's music video, directed by Adam Berg

Adam Berg (director)

Adam Berg is a Swedish music video-director and brother to Joakim Berg of the music group Kent. He has also directed a number of television and cinema commercials...

, features a man falling from the sky until he eventually falls through the ground, where he continues to fall until he eventually falls out of Earth

Earth

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. Peter Gabriel

Peter Gabriel

Peter Brian Gabriel is an English singer, musician, and songwriter who rose to fame as the lead vocalist and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis. After leaving Genesis, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career...

 appears three times during the music video, as an airplane pilot, a man inside a building and a man walking on the street, all of them witnessing the man falling at one point.

The song is one of the songs listed on Clear Channel

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's list of "songs with questionable lyrics" following the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Track listing

CD single (UK)

1. "When You're Falling" (Short radio edit) - 3:44
2. "When You're Falling" (Wren & Morley Mix) - 4:35
3. "When You're Falling" (Album version) - 5:16
4. "When You're Falling" (video)

Promo CD single (UK)

1. "When You're Falling" (Short radio edit) - 3:40
2. "When You're Falling" (Long radio edit) - 4:14

Promo CD single (U.S.)

1. "When You're Falling" (Short radio edit) - 3:40
2. "When You're Falling" (Long radio edit) - 4:14
3. "When You're Falling" (Album version) - 5:14
4. Call-out hook

Charts

Chart (2001)	Peak position
Dutch Singles Chart Mega Single Top 100 The Single Top 100 is a Dutch chart, based on official physical single sales and legal downloads and composed by MegaCharts. It is one of the three official charts, the other two being the Dutch Top 40 and the Mega Top 50. The difference is that these charts also include airplay data.The list is...	86
UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...	139
U.S. Billboard Adult Top 40	27