Landlocked Blues lyrics

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 someday
So you walk that way, I`ll walk this way

And the future hangs over 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 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 playing guns in the street
And one`s pointing his tree branch at me
And 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 would pass the way 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 twenty-two 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 the background from a televised war
And in that deafening pleasure, I thought I heard someone say
If we walk away, they 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 pose
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 measurable time
And then we can trade places, play musical grace
`Til then walk away, 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 dont know where to
I know I`m leaving, but I dont know where to
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