How Can I Fall?

"How Can I Fall?"
Single by Breathe
from the album All That Jazz
B-side"All This I Should Have Known", "Monday Morning Blues" (US)
ReleasedNovember 1988
Recorded1985–87; CBS Studios (London)
GenreSoft rock
Length
  • 4:42 (album version)
  • 4:08 (US edit)
  • 3:59 (single version)
Label
Songwriter(s)
  • David Glasper
  • Marcus Lillington
Producer(s)Bob Sargeant
Breathe singles chronology
"Hands to Heaven"
(1987)
"How Can I Fall?"
(1988)
""Don't Tell Me Lies (reissue)"
(1989)

"How Can I Fall?" is a song by British band Breathe, written by the group members David Glasper and Marcus Lillington. It was released in June 1988 as the second single from their debut studio album, All That Jazz (1988). In the United Kingdom, "How Can I Fall?" was the third single from the album, following "Hands to Heaven" and the UK-only release "Jonah".

The song was successful in the United States where it peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. Internationally, "How Can I Fall" reached the top 40 in the Belgium and Netherlands; however, in the United Kingdom it peaked solely at #48.