Capo 3 

C                 G4      C 
If you walk away, I’ll walk away 
C                   G4         C 
First tell me which road you will take 
  Am            G4          C             Am 
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 

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 jewellery 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 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 


Am        G4  C 
I found a liquid cure 
Am     G4      C 
For my landlocked blues 
        F    G4       C      Am 
It will pass away like a slow parade 
     C             G              C 
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 the 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 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 graves 

Till then walk away, walk away 


Am     G     C 
So I’m up at dawn 
Am      G     C 
Putting on my shoes 
       F       G4  C     Am 
I just want to make a clean escape 
    C             G4            C 
I’m leaving but I don’t know where to 
           Am            G4            C 
I know I’m leaving but I don’t know where to