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Walk It Back Lyrics
Walk it back
Walk it back
Walk it back
What
What would you
Have had me say
Instead of what I said?
Where
Where would I go?
How could I follow that
Except to do what I did
Which is to
Walk it back
Walk it back
Walk it back
Time
Reverse and rewind
Erase and revise
And try to start again
You
Don't you turn this around
I have not touched the ground
In I don't know how long
You say to
Walk it back
Walk it back
Walk it back
Walk it back
Walk it back
Walk it back
Time
Time
Time, it cannot abide
You
You can't turn away
You've asked me to stay
But something needs to change
Why can't you...
Walk it back?
Walk it back
Walk it back
Walk it back
Walk it back
Walk it back
Walk it back
Walk it back
What would you
Have had me say
Instead of what I said?
Where would I go?
How could I follow that
Except to do what I did
Walk it back
Walk it back
Walk it back
Reverse and rewind
Erase and revise
And try to start again
Don't you turn this around
I have not touched the ground
In I don't know how long
Walk it back
Walk it back
Walk it back
Walk it back
Walk it back
Time
Time, it cannot abide
You
You can't turn away
You've asked me to stay
But something needs to change
Why can't you...
Walk it back
Walk it back
Walk it back
Walk it back
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very nice vocals...both lead and backing... As far as the meaning, I have had moments when I wish I would have had a better way of saying what was in my heart, because somehow it seemed that my true feelings were misunderstood...would have been good to "Walk it Back"
Michael (from wikipedia): "In my head, it's like I'm addressing a nine-year-old and I'm saying, 'I come from a faraway place called the 20th century. And these are the values and these are the mistakes we've made and these are the triumphs. These are the things that we held in the highest esteem. These are the things to learn from" I don’t know if he meant this about "Walk it back" but it seems to me that it fits.
One of the more straightforward REM songs, in some ways. The person addressed in the song really wishes the singer hadn't told him something, and that they could return to how things were before. The singer gently acknowledges this, but says that he was basically painted into a corner, and had no choice. Things happen, we have knowledge, we have to move on.
But of course it has the wonderful REM way of perhaps being about a relationship, perhaps being social commentary, perhaps being something else entirely. Delicious.