meanning of - falling grace

[digital]

what is the meanning of the title "falling grace" by steve swallow.
I hate playing something without understanding its meaning...

[Pete C]

Sounds like a play on "falling from grace." Maybe Grace is a person.

[mke]

Originally Posted by Pete C

Maybe Grace is a person.

A clumsy person, perhaps.

[Nate Dorward]

Perhaps the image is of grace descending on someone like rain. As mercy is said to fall in Portia's speech.

[digital]

thanks for all your guesses,
here is the reply I got from steve swallow:
"
Hello,

I'm not entirely sure what the meaning of "Falling Grace" is. For one
thing, its melody contains a series of descending (falling) phrases. For
another, I wrote the song with Bill Evans in mind. He seemed to me at the time
symbolic of the decadence of white people, and "Falling Grace" is a play on
"Falling Race."

Steve Swallow
"

[Paul B]

The decadence of white people?

Pretty strange....Is he referring to Evans' drug problems? Certainly drugs affected blacks as well as whites in the jazz world.

But the title of the song is cool.

Bye-ya.