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Take A Walk

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Tough break handjob broke it all right in two
And it won't get back together with stitches and glue
And now that song's been sung
It's just the cost of what's been done
The cost of taking a walk with you

I can tell myself
This is for all concerned's health
And I may yet dot that I
Fill it up and pour it down the inside

And tell you all go and take a walk
And I said all y'all go take a walk

Tough breakhandob sent me back home to Ma
Back to cowtown and the fish shop and the mall

Oh yeah it sent me right back where I came from
And in the interim nothing changed
So I may yet dot that I
Fill it up and pour it down the inside

Until you all go and take a walk
And I said all y'all go take a walk

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foxyurchin On Jul 19, 2002

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by Meeps

21y ago

Great sing-a-long song. I love driving to this song.

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by knightwriter

15y ago

I can't see how this would have any direct connection, but I was watching Full Metal Jacket again and noticed that "Tough break for Handjob" is spoken as the soldiers stand over two of their dead comrades ("Handjob" being a nickname they had given to one of them due to his chronic masturbation). Anyway, having been recently listening to "Girls Can Tell" a fair bit, the opening line of this song stuck out to me.

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