Take a Walk

All these kinds of places
Make it seem like it's been ages

Tomorrow some new building will scrape the sky

I love this country dearly
I can feel the ladder clearly
But I never thought I'd be alone to try

Once I was outside Penn station
Selling red and white carnations
We were still alone
My wife and I

Before we marry save my money
Brought my dear wife over
Now I want to bring my family state side

But off the boat they stayed a while
Then scattered across the coast

Once a year I'll see them
For a week or so at most
I took a walk
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Practice isn't perfect
But the market cuts the loss

I remind myself that times could be much worse

My wife won't ask me questions
There's not so much to ask
And she'll never flaunt around an empty purse

Once my mother in law came
Just to stay a couple nights

Then decided she would stay the rest of her life

I watch my little children

Play some board game in the kitchen
And I sit and pray they never feel my strife

But then my partner called
To say the pension funds were gone
He made some bad investments
Now the accounts are overdrawn
I took a walk
Take a walk take a walk take a walk

Take a walk take a walk take a walk
Girl

Take a walk take a walk take a walk

Take a walk take a walk take a walk

Honey it's your son I think I borrowed just too much

We had taxes we had bills
We had a lifestyle of fun

And tonight I swear I'll come home
And we'll make love like we're young
Then tomorrow you'll cook dinner
For the neighbours and their kids

We can rip apart those socialists and all their d**n taxes

But see I am no criminal
I'm down on both bad knees

I'm just too much a coward to admit when I'm in need
I took a walk
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