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".[2] 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.[3]
^Nizam, Eric (2004). "Crash into me baby: America's implicit censorship since 11 September". In Korpe, Marie (ed.). Shoot the Singer!. London: Zed Books. pp. 151, 158. ISBN1-84277-505-7.
