Poe - Walk The Walk Lyrics
My mother spent 10 years sitting by a windowScared if she spoke she would die of a heart attackShe listened as her dreams silently screamedThey drowned like little dolphins caught in a fishnetDear world Im pleased to meet youHey everybody when you walk the walkYou gotta back it all up you gotta talk the talkHey everybody when I hear the knockDont wanna measure out my life to the tick of a clockHey everybody when my daddy diedHe had a sad sad story written in his eyesHey everybody when you walk the walkYou cannot measure out your life to the tick of a clockI wanna walk to the beat of my own drumI wanna walk to the beat of my own drumHey everybodyCan you walk the walk you gotta back it all upBut can you talk the talkHey everybodyCan 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 drumI wanna live to the beat of my own drumI wanna take to the beat of my own drumI wanna hang ten, high, say pleased to meet youGive to the beat of my own drumI wanna sing to the beat of my own drumI wanna fly, cry, win, lose, live, die, take fivePleased to meet youMy daddy spent 10 years living on the outside looking inHe thought that he would never get backWatched his dream walk across a silver screenAnd he was standing there when the theatre went pitch blackDear world Im pleased to meet youHey everybody when I walk the walkI gotta back it all up I vgotta talk the talkHey everybody when I hear the knockDont wanna measure out my life to the tick of a clockHey 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 drumI wanna laugh to the beat of my own drumI wanna play to the beat of my own drumI wanna hang ten, high, say pleased to meet youI wanna screw up to the beat of my own drumI wanna take it out of town and do it to my drumScream shoutWipe outMake love to my babyFather: its a wonderful idea, but it doesnt work.My own drum my own beatHey did you ever get the feeling that its really a jokeYou think youve got it figured out and then you find that you dontSo you say goodbye to the world and now youre floating in spaceYou got no sense of nothing not even a time or a placeThen suddenly you hear it its the beat of your heartAnd for the first time in your life you know your life is about to startI wanna walk to the beat of my own drumDaughter:Theres someone knocking in the wall, was it an echo? ba da pa pa
