if you walk away i'll walk away first tell me which road you will take, i don't want to risk our paths crossing someday so you walk that way i walk this way
and the future hangs over our heads and it moves with each current event until it falls all around like a cold steady rain just stay in when it's lookin' this way
and the moon's layin' low in the sky forcin' everything metal to shine and the sidewalk holds diamonds like a jewelry store case they argue walk this way, no walk this way
and laura's asleep on my bed as i'm leaving she wakes up and says i dreamed you were carried away on the crest of a wave baby don't go uh… come
and there's kids playin' guns in the streets one's pointin' his tree-branch at me so i put my hands up and say “enough is enough if you walk away, i'll walk away' and he shot me dead
i found a liquid cure for my landlocked blues they will pass away like a slow parade it's leavin' but i don't know how soon
and the world's got me dizzy again you'd think after twenty-two years i'd be used to the spin and it only feels worse when i stay in one place so i am always pacin' or walkin' away
and i'm drinkin' the ink from my pen and i'm balancin' history book up on my head and it all boils down to one quotable phrase “if you love something, give it away'
a good woman would pick you apart a box full of suggestions for a possible heart and you might be offended, you might be afraid but don't walk away, don't walk away
we made love on the livin' room floor with the noise in the background from a televised war and in that deafening pleasure i thought i heard someone say “if we walk away, they'll walk away'
though greed is a bottomless pit an our freedom's a joke we're just taking a piss and the whole world must watch the sad comic display if you're still free start running away cuz we're comin' for ya gonna root ‘em out
i've grown tired of holdin' this pose i feel more like a stranger each time I come home i'm makin' a deal with the devil's of fame sayin' “let me walk away…please'
you'll be free child once you have died from the shackles of language and measurable time and then we can trade places play musical grace tellin' walk away, walk away
so i'm up at dawn puttin' on my shoes i just wanna make a clean mistake i'm leavin' but i don't know where to no I'm leaving but i don't know where to
