Know when to walk
Know when to walk away
Know when to walk
Know when to walk away
Know when to walk
Know when to walk away
Know when to walk
Know when to walk
Slowly grind away the innocence
If you can hide the evidence
Erase the photographs
If you can choke down the laughs
Advertise the bruises and the lows
Cause you know it never shows
It's too late to let it in
When it's under your skin
Why'd you take the long way round
Going nowhere
I heard you tried to make a sound
Out of dead air
Your silence is murder
Your silence is murder
Your silence is murder
Know when to walk away
The only way that i know how to be
Is slowly killing me
But I keep it in my coat
Or maybe stuffed down my throat
Apologize for every breath you take
Cause the world is what we make
To slowly blur the line
Between the out and inside
Did you take what you deserve
And then some
And didn't catch a single word
Above the bedlam
Your silence is murder
Your silence is murder
Your silence is murder
Know when to walk away
Know when to walk
Know when to walk away
These confessions are worthless
A dozen a dime
A drop of blood in the sea
So serious, so serious
Can you honestly tell me
That there is nothing more to say?
Know when to walk
Know when to walk away
Slowly grind away the innocence
Slowly grind away the innocence
Slowly grind away the innocence
Slowly grind away the innocence
Slowly grind away the innocence
Know when to walk
Khow when to walk away
Slowly grind away the innocence
Know when to walk
Know when to walk away
Slowly grind away the innocence
Know when to walk
Know when to walk away
Slowly grind away the innocence
Your silence is murder
Your silence is murder
Your silence is murder
Know when to walk away
Know when to walk
Know when to walk away
Know when to walk
Know when to walk away
Know when to walk
Know when to walk away


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Know When To Walk Away Lyrics as written by Jay Clifford

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    I completely see it the way you guys do: "If you can hide the evidence" Keep anyone from figuring out she/he's being beaten. "If you can choke down the laughs" I don't know, maybe the person beating doesn't have any pity and it just makes them laugh how the other person just shuts up. "It's too late to let it in when it's under your skin" It's too late to get over it (actually, it can also mean to speak up) when you already have a connection, are already attached. Someone might also think of it as cheating. Hiding the evidence of it. Slowly grind away the innocence can be that one is influencing another into things they've never done before, most likely sex. I guess I see it this the way I do because I can relate to it so much more this way.

    jelllllllyfishedon January 06, 2009   Link

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