if you walk away ill walk away

first tell me which road you will take,

i dont 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 its lookin this way



and the moons 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 lauras asleep on my bed

as im leaving she wakes up and says

i dreamed you were carried away on the crest of a wave

baby dont go uh come



and theres kids playin guns in the streets

ones pointin his tree-branch at me

so i put my hands up and say enough is enough

if you walk away, ill walk away

and he shot me dead



i found a liquid cure

for my landlocked blues

they will pass away like a slow parade

its leavin but i dont know how soon



and the worlds got me dizzy again

youd think after twenty-two years id 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 im drinkin the ink from my pen

and im 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 dont walk away, dont 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, theyll walk away



though greed is a bottomless