Capo 3rd fret

Standard (EADGBE)

 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 moon's laying low in the sky

 Forcing everything metal to shine

 And the sidewalk holds diamonds like the jewelry store case

 They argue walk this way, now 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

I found a liquid cure

From my landlocked blues

 It'll 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 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 post

 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 immeasurable time

 And then we can trade places, play musical grace

 Till then 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 don't know where to

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