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