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