“If we walk away they’ll walk away”
If you walk away, I’ll walk away” and he shot me dead
And it only feels worse when I stay in one place
Just stay in when it’s looking this way
From my landlocked blues
A box full of suggestions for your possible heart
I just want to make a clean escape
You’ll be free child once you have died
So I’m up at dawn, putting on my shoes
And the sidewalk holds diamonds like the jewelry store case
And the moon’s laying low in the sky
And I’m balancing history books up on my head
Till then walk away, walk away, walk away, walk away
It’ll pass away like a slow parade
So you walk that way, I’ll walk this way
So I put my hands up I say, “Enough is enough
I found a liquid cure
As I’m leaving she wakes up and says
If you love something, give it away
So I’m making a deal with the devils of faith
And ones pointing his tree branch at me
I feel more like a stranger each time I come home
With the noise in background from a televised war
And the whole world must watch the sad comic display
Baby, don’t go away, come here”
I’m leaving but I don’t know where to
And I keep drinking the ink form my pen
And then we can trade places, play musical grace
And our freedom’s a joke, we’re just taking a piss
And Laura’s asleep in my bed
So I’m always pacing around or walking away
“I dreamed you were carried away on the crest of a wave
But greed is a bottomless pit
And the world’s got me dizzy again
Forcing everything metal to shine
But don’t walk away, don’t walk away
But you may be offended and you may be afraid
You think after 22 years, I’d be used to the spin
They argue walk this way, now walk this way
We made love on the living room floor
I don’t want to risk our past crossing some day
And there’s kids playing guns in the street
And the future hangs over our heads
Until it falls all around like a cold steady rain
A good woman will pick you apart
But it all boils down to one quotable phrase
From the shackles of language and measurable time
I’ve grown tired of holding this post
And it moves with each current event
If you’re still free start running away 'cause we’re coming for you
It’s leaving but I don’t know how soon
And in the deafening pleasure, I thought I heard someone say
Saying “Let me walk away, please”
