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Walk the Walk Lyrics
Mother spent ten 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 can you talk the talk
Hey everybody when I hear the knock
Don't wanna measure out my life to the tick of a clock
Hey everybody when my daddy died
He had a sad sad story living in his eyes
Hey everybody when you walk the walk
You cannot measure out your life to the tick of a clock
I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum
I wanna 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 wanna walk to the beat of my own drum
(Say what?)
I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum
(Say what?)
I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum
I wanna live to the beat of my own drum
I wanna take to the beat of my own drum
I wanna hang ten, high, say pleased to meet you
Give to the beat of my own drum
I wanna sing to the beat of my own drum
I wanna fly, cry, win, lose, live, die, take five
Pleased to meet you
My daddy spent ten 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 gotta talk the talk
Hey everybody when I hear the knock
Don't wanna measure out my life to the tick of a clock
Hey everybody
Can you walk the walk?
I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum
(Say what?)
I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum
(Say what?)
I wanna live to the beat of my own drum
I wanna laugh to the beat of my own drum
I wanna play to the beat of my own drum
I wanna hang ten, high, say pleased to meet you
I wanna screw up to the beat of my own drum
I wanna take it out of town and do it to my drum
Scream, shout
Wipe out
Make love to my baby
To my baby
Father: "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
Oh yeah, bring it on
Hey everybody
Hey everybody
When you walk the walk
You gotta back it up
Back it up
Back it up
Say what?
What you want?
I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum...
"There's someone knocking in the wall"
"Was it like an echo?"
"Ba da ba..."
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
You gotta back it all up can you talk the talk
Hey everybody when I hear the knock
Don't wanna measure out my life to the tick of a clock
He had a sad sad story living in his eyes
Hey everybody when you walk the walk
You cannot measure out your life to the tick of a clock
I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum
Can you walk the walk you gotta back it all up
But can you talk the talk
Hey everybody
can you walk the walk?
(Say what?)
I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum
(Say what?)
I wanna live to the beat of my own drum
I wanna take to the beat of my own drum
I wanna hang ten, high, say pleased to meet you
I wanna sing to the beat of my own drum
Pleased to meet you
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
I gotta back it all up I gotta talk the talk
Hey everybody when I hear the knock
Don't wanna measure out my life to the tick of a clock
Can you walk the walk?
(Say what?)
I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum
(Say what?)
I wanna laugh to the beat of my own drum
I wanna play to the beat of my own drum
I wanna hang ten, high, say pleased to meet you
I wanna screw up to the beat of my own drum
I wanna take it out of town and do it to my drum
Scream, shout
Wipe out
Make love to my baby
To my baby
But it doesn't work."
My own beat
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
Oh yeah, bring it on
Hey everybody
When you walk the walk
You gotta back it up
Back it up
Back it up
Say what?
What you want?
"Was it like an echo?"
"Ba da ba..."
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"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 Oh yeah, bring it on!"
Perfectly describes that moment when you finally realize all of the people and places and things that are holding you down and you let go of it, you let go of all of it, and finally you're free to finally LIVE. It's a very scary and exciting thing. The start of a real life, and not just some loop of pleasing everyone else.