Walk The Walk
by Poe

Album: Haunted (2000)
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  • My mother spent 10 years sitting by a window
    Scared if she spoke she would die of a heart attack
    She listened as her dreams silently screamed
    They drowned like little dolphins caught in a fishnet

    Dear world I'm pleased to meet you

    Hey everybody when you walk the walk
    You gotta back it all up you gotta talk the talk
    Hey everybody when I hear the knock
    Don't want to measure out my life to the tick of a clock

    Hey everybody when my daddy died
    He had a sad sad story written in his eyes
    Hey everybody when you walk the walk
    You cannot measure out your life to the tick of a clock

    I want to walk to the beat of my own drum
    I want to walk to the beat of my own drum

    Hey everybody
    Can you walk the walk you gotta back it all up
    But can you talk the talk
    Hey everybody
    Can you walk the walk?

    I want to walk to the beat of my own drum
    (Say what?)
    I want to walk to the beat of my own drum
    (Say what?)

    I want to walk to the beat of my own drum
    I want to live to the beat of my own drum
    I want to take to the beat of my own drum
    I want to hang ten, high, say pleased to meet you

    Give to the beat of my own drum
    I want to sing to the beat of my own drum

    I want to fly, cry, win, lose, live, die, take five
    Pleased to meet you

    My daddy spent 10 years living on the outside looking in
    He thought that he would never get back
    Watched his dream walk across a silver screen
    And he was standing there when the theatre went pitch black

    Dear world I'm pleased to meet you

    Hey everybody when I walk the walk
    I gotta back it all up I vgotta talk the talk
    Hey everybody when I hear the knock
    Don't want to measure out my life to the tick of a clock

    Hey everybody--can you walk the walk?

    I want to walk to the beat of my own drum
    (Say what?)
    I want to walk to the beat of my own drum
    (Say what?)

    I want to live to the beat of my own drum
    I want to laugh to the beat of my own drum
    I want to play to the beat of my own drum
    I want to hang ten, high, say pleased to meet you

    I want to screw up to the beat of my own drum
    I want to take it out of town and do it to my drum

    Scream shout
    Wipe out
    Make love to my baby

    It's a wonderful idea, but it doesn't work.

    My own drum my own beat

    Hey did you ever get the feeling that it's really a joke
    You think you've got it figured out and then you find that you don't
    So you say goodbye to the world and now you're floating in space
    You got no sense of nothing not even a time or a place
    Then suddenly you hear it it's the beat of your heart
    And for the first time in your life you know your life is about to start

    I want to walk to the beat of my own drum

    There's someone knocking in the wall, was it an echo? ba da pa pa Writer/s: ANNIE DECATUR DANIELEWSKI, JOHN O'BRIEN
    Publisher: CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Moosehead from Sctry the title track. one of my favorite songs of all time. better than fade into you by mazzy star
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