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 some day

So you walk that way, I’ll 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 looking this way


And the moon’s laying low in the sky
Forcing everything metal to shine

And the sidewalk holds diamonds like the jewelry store case
They argue walk this way, now walk this way


And Laura’s asleep in 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 away, come here”

And there’s kids playing guns in the street

And ones pointing his tree branch at me
So I put my hands up I say “enough is enough,
If you walk away, I’ll walk away”

And he shot me dead

I found a liquid cure

From my landlocked blues
It’ll pass away like a slow parade
It’s leaving but I don’t know how soon


And the world’s got me dizzy again
You think after 22 years I’d be used to the spin

And it only feels worse when I stay in one place
So I’m always pacing around or walking away
I keep drinking the ink from my pen

And I’m balancing history books up on my head
But it all boils down to one quotable phrase
If you love something, give it away


A good woman will pick you apart
A box full of suggestions for your possible heart

But you may be offended and you may be afraid
But don’t walk away, don’t walk away


We made love on the living room floor
With the noise in background of a televised war
And in the deafening pleasure I thought I heard someone say

“If we walk away, they’ll walk away”

But greed is a bottomless pit

And 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
Cause we’re coming for you!


I’ve grown tired of holding this post
I feel more like a stranger each time I come home
So I’m making a deal with the devils of faith

Saying “let me walk away, please”
You’ll be free child once you have died
From the shackles of language and immeasurable time

And then we can trade places, play musical grace
Till then walk away, walk away


So I’m up at dawn
Putting on my shoes
I just want to make a clean escape

I’m leaving but I don’t know where to
I know I’m leaving but I don’t know where to