Lyric discussion by talflick 

Cover art for Walking To Do lyrics by Ted Leo and the Pharmacists

right. he's trying to tell us to quit wasting our time looking for answers in religion... and bribing us, with the enticing concept of new shoes! which serves as a base for the metaphor he sets up next, the lots of walking... well, i think it refers to the fact we need to travel to find our real meaning of life... instead of believing what a book and some radicals tells us.... ?