Bright Eyes - 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 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 moons laying low in the sky

forcing everything metal to shine

and the sidewalk holds diamonds

like the jewelry store case

you walk that way, i'll 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

so i put my hands up

i say enough is enough

if you walk i'll walk you

and he shot me dead

i found a liquid cure for my landlocked blues

it will 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'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 keep drinking the ink from my pen

and i'm balancing history books up on my head

but it all boils down to one beautiful 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

don't walk away, don't walk away

we made love on the living room floor

with the noise in the background from the 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 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 measurable time

and then we can trade places, play musical grace

till then walk away, walk away, walk away, walk away

so i'm out that door

putting on my shoes

i just want to make

a clean escape

i'm leaving but i don't know where to