arienettelyn's Diaryland Diary

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just cuz it's a song doesn't mean you shouldn't read it! THAT MEANS YOU! :)

bright eyes - one foot in front of the other

if you walk away, i'll walk away
but first tell me what road you will take
i don't wanna risk our paths crossing some day
so you walk that way, i'll walk this way

the future hangs over our heads
and it moves with each current event
until it falls around us like a cold steady rain
just stay in when it's looking this way
the moon's laying low in the sky
forcing everything metal to shine
and the sidewalk holds diamonds like a jewelry store case
they argue...walk this way, no 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 playin guns in the street
and one's 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 then he shot me dead!

i found a liquid cure
for my landlocked blues
they will pass away
like a slow parade
it's leaving but i don't know how soon

the world's got me dizzy again
you'd 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'm drinking the ink from my pen
and i'm balancing history books up on my head
and 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 a possible heart
and 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 the background from a televised war
and in that 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
cuz i'm comin for ya

i've grown tired of holding this pose
i feel more like a stranger each time i come home
so i'm making a deal with the devils of fame
saying let me walk away, please

you'll be free child once you have died
from the shackles of language and measureable time
then we can trade places, play musical graves
till they walk away, walk away, walk away

cuz i'm up at dawn
putting on my shoes
i just wanna make a clean escape
i'm leaving, but i dont know where to
i'm leaving, but i don't know where to...

again...they may be wrong, because it was me that wrote em down...and i'm stupid.

4:31 p.m. - 2003-03-27

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