D A D
If you walk away, I'll walk away
D A D
First tell me which road you will take
Bm A D Bm
I don't want to risk our paths crossing some day
D A D
So you walk that way, I'll walk this way
D A D
And the future hangs over our heads
D A D
And it moves with each current event
Bm A D Bm
Until it falls all around like a cold steady rain
D A D
Just stay in when it's looking this way
D A D
And the moon's laying low in the sky
D A D
Forcing everything metal to shine
Bm A D Bm
And the sidewalk holds diamonds like the jewelry store case
D A D
They argue walk this way, now walk this way
D A D
And Laura's asleep in my bed
D A D
As I'm leaving she wakes up and says
Bm A D Bm
"I dreamed you were carried away on the crest of a wave
D A D
Baby don't go away, come here"
D A D
And there's kids playing guns in the street
D A D
And ones pointing his tree branch at me
Bm A D Bm
So I put my hands up I say "enough is enough,
D A D
If you walk away, I'll walk away"
D7
And he shot me dead
Bm A D
I found a liquid cure
Bm A D
From my landlocked blues
G A D Bm
It'll pass away like a slow parade
D A D
It's leaving but I don't know how soon
D A D
And the world's got me dizzy again
D A D
You think after 22 years I'd be used to the spin
Bm A D Bm
And it only feels worse when I stay in one place
D A D
So I'm always pacing around or walking away
D A D
I keep drinking the ink from my pen
D A D
And I'm balancing history books up on my head
Bm A D Bm
But it all boils down to one quotable phrase
D A D
If you love something, give it away
D A D
A good woman will pick you apart
D A D
A box full of suggestions for your possible heart
Bm A D Bm
But you may be offended and you may be afraid
D A D
But don't walk away, don't walk away
D A D
We made love on the living room floor
D A D
With the noise in the background of a televised war
Bm A D Bm
And in the deafening pleasure I thought I heard someone say
D A D
"If we walk away, they'll walk away"
D A D
But greed is a bottomless pit
D A D
And our freedom's a joke we're just taking a piss
Bm A D Bm
And the whole world must watch the sad comic display
D A D
If you're still free start running away
Cause we're coming for you!
D A D
I've grown tired of holding this pose
D A D
I feel more like a stranger each time I come home
Bm A D Bm
So I'm making a deal with the devils of fame
D A D
Saying "let me walk away, please"
D A D
You'll be free child once you have died
D A D
From the shackles of language and measurable time
Bm A D Bm
And then we can trade places, play musical graves
D A D
Till then walk away, walk away
D7
Bm A D
So I'm up at dawn
Bm A D
Putting on my shoes
G A D Bm
I just want to make a clean escape
Bm A D
I'm leaving but I don't know where to
Bm A D
I know I'm leaving but I don't know where to