When You're Falling

{{Infobox song

| name = When You're Falling

| cover = When You're Falling Afro Celt.jpg

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Afro Celt Sound System featuring Peter Gabriel

| album = Volume 3: Further in Time

| released = June 19, 2001

| recorded =

| studio =

| genre = World

| length = 5:14 (Album version)
3:44 (Single version)

| label = Real World

| writer =

• Simon Emmerson
• James McNally
• Iarla O'Lionaird
• Martin Russell

| producer = Simon Emmerson

| chronology = Afro Celt Sound System

| prev_title = Release

| prev_year = 2000

| next_title =

| next_year =

| misc = {{Extra chronology

| artist = Peter Gabriel

| type = single

| prev_title = While the Earth Sleeps

| prev_year = 1996

| title = When You're Falling

| year = 2001

| next_title = The Barry Williams Show

| next_year = 2002

}}

}}

"When You're Falling" is a song by world music group Afro Celt Sound System, released as the first single from the band's third studio album Volume 3: Further in Time. The song features vocals from Peter Gabriel, Iarla Ó Lionáird, and members of Screaming Orphans.{{Cite book |last=Marziano |first=Alfredo |last2=Perasi |first2=Luca |title=Peter Gabriel: The Rhythm Has My Soul |publisher=L.I.L.Y Publishing |year=2024 |isbn=978-88-909122-5-2 |location=Milan, Italy |page=229}}

The song's music video, directed by Adam Berg, 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. Peter Gabriel appears three times during the music video, as an airplane pilot, a man inside a building, and a man walking on the street.

Following the September 11 attacks in the United States, Slate reported that Clear Channel Communications distributed a memorandum to various program directors. The memorandum contained a list of over 150 songs that they believed contained "questionable lyrics", with one of those songs being "When You're Falling".{{cite web|last=Truitt|first=Eliza|title=It's the End of the World as Clear Channel Knows It|work=Slate.com|date=September 17, 2001|url=http://slate.com/id/1008314/|access-date=September 14, 2007|archive-url=https://archive.today/20071015200337/http://slate.com/id/1008314/|archive-date=October 15, 2007|url-status=dead}} The vice president of programming at Clear Channel had assembled the list for radio programmers and advised them to exercise restraint when selecting songs to broadcast.{{Cite book |last=Nizam |first=Eric |title=Shoot the Singer! |publisher=Zed Books |year=2004 |isbn=1-84277-505-7 |editor-last=Korpe |editor-first=Marie |location=London |pages=151, 158 |chapter=Crash into me baby: America's implicit censorship since 11 September}}