I’d rather live a life of lies and fantasy
Than to face the truth and realize you’re leaving me
You built me up so high my heart can’t stand to fall
And life without your love just isn’t life at all

So walk out backwards if you must go
But please don’t wave goodbye
Just wave one last hello
The truth won’t hurt so much
If I can just pretend
So walk out backwards
And I’ll think you’re walking in

Well, you walked into my heart in search of sympathy
And from that day down to this
You’ve walked all over me
And now you’re walking out to love somebody new
But you’re not by yourself
‘Cause my heart’s leaving too

So walk out backwards if you must go
But please don’t wave goodbye
Just wave one last hello
The truth won’t hurt so much
If I can just pretend
So walk out backwards
And I’ll think you’re walking in

(Bernie Nelson/Lisa Palas)

There’s do’ers and don’ters and I wills and won’ters
and them, that don’t even try
Givers and takers, movers and shakers
And them that are just passing by

Skidrows and winos and some folks that I know
That don’t do like I think they should
I thought they were livin’ their lifes all wrong
Long, before I understood

We all have to walk our own road
We can’t always go where we’re told
In the end where it’ll end up – the Lord only knows
But we all have to walk our own road

I’ve had some good times and I’ve had a good life
And I’ve had things goin’ my way
I’ve walked the highground and treasures that I’ve found
An’ women who brightened my day

Then there were times I was caught in the crosswinds
With life – goin’ ’round and around
Like a ship with no sail I was caught in a gale
Til I fin’ly just ran it a-ground

We all have to walk our own road
We can’t always go where we’re told
In the end where it’ll end up – the Lord only knows
But we all have to walk our own road

I met a magic man
Who had a daughter
She learned her lessons well
But still I taught her
She followed willingly
As lambs to slaughter
We shared forbidden fruit
And things I brought her

You may say I’m a miracle man again
Here I come with my mystical plan again
I know you think I can
I’m just a man

I don’t walk on water
(Oh no)
I don’t walk on water
(Oh no)

I followed willingly
Her sweet temptation
She had me hypnotized
But still I’m waiting
My drowned and buried dreams? (My dromedary dreams?)
As wet as oceans
We set the bearing seas? (With sand dunes bearing seeds?)
She set emotion? (She set in motion?)

You may say I’m a cynical charlatan
There I go with my whimsical ways again
Although you think I can
I’m just a man

That I don’t walk on water
(Oh no)
I don’t walk on water
(Oh no)
I don’t walk on water
(Oh no)
I don’t walk on water
(Oh no)

(Here’s two options for the bridge. Not at all sure which one’s right, his voice is all messed up) I-
The light is guiding eyes
As I look in on you
And the light is getting shorter
I suppose I’m you

II-
Kaleidoscopial eyes
As you look in the mirror
And the long is getting shorter
As the far is now nearer

Are you just a mirror
Standing in front of me
In my mind? (Am I blind?)
Can my eyes really see

here I am as I have been so many times before
looking back across the water
to my house upon the shore
turning ’round and ’round again
to face the open air
bewildered by the here
and the what is over there
kicking up the surface
then giving back again
how far out can I reach
without failing in
’cause I can’t walk on water
standing on my pier upon the ocean
captured by the notions of possibility
manufacturing reality
alone as I seem I am among you
if I call out will you walk on water
will you walk on water
I guess I’ll never find the puff-the-magic-dragon side
unless I ride my ship of dreams across the swirling tide
I stare into the chaos that’s ahead of me
frustrated with the path that I have chose to see
like an arrow shot
my dreaming eye is caught
by the distant shores returning
to just an inch behind
’cause I can walk on water
standing on my pier upon the ocean
captured by the notions of possibility
manufacturing reality
alone as I seem I am among you
if I call out will you walk on water
will you walk on water
just a little ways out
just a little ways in
if I was making a bridge this is where I would begin
but I wouldn’t have stopped here
if I call out will you walk on water
will you walk on water
leaps of faith must suffer the weight of hopes
but then the undertow pulls strongest
to the ones that we have been
will you walk on water

Well if I could walk on water
And if I could find some way to prove
If I could walk on water would you believe in me
My love is so true
(Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, etc.)

Well I’m no angel, now, I’ll admit
I made a few bad moves I should regret
I hurt you once or so you said
Just one more chance is all you get
Didn’t mean to do you wrong again
Worse things have been done by better men
Baby, baby, don’t, don’t treat me this way
I know, yes, I’ve got to pay now, I’m still paying

Well if I could walk on water
And if I could find some way to prove
If I could walk on water would you believe in me, my love is true
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, oh

All along, I told you lies
To err is human, forgive is divine
Don’t be a fool, don’t settle the score
Cause I can’t take it no more, I can’t take it

Well if I could walk on water
And if I could find some way to prove
If I could walk on water would you believe in me, my love is true
Well, if I could walk on water (if I could)
Is that what I’m gonna have to do
If I could walk on water would be you believe in me, my love is so true

Do I have to walk, walk, walk on water for you
Hey baby, baby, there’s a little time, let’s spend it together
We’ll get over what we left behind, there’s our future together
Yeah, well let’s stay together

(musical interlude)

Well, if I could walk on water
And if I could find some way to prove
If I could walk on water would you believe in me, my love is true
My love is so true, do I have to walk, oh, walk on water for you

If I had to walk, girl
If I had to walk, walk, walk
Do I have to walk on water, walk on water for you
Do I have to walk on water
Do I have to find some way to prove
Do I have to walk on water, walk on water for you
Do I have to walk on water
Do I have to find some way to prove
Yeah, yeah, walk on water, walk on water for you

There was a time
When nothing would last
There was a time
I held on to the past

Chorus:
I would
walk on water
just to be with you
walk on water
just to be with you
split the ocean
cross the sea
walk on water
if you believe

There was a time
I lost my faith
There was a time
I could only hate

You are my shepherd
You are my guide
Follow your dark eyes
Right into the night
You are my savior
You took control
I came and touched my soul

Chorus:
I would
walk on water
just to be with you
walk on water
just to be with you
split the ocean
cross the sea
walk on water
if you believe

There was a time
When nothing would last
There was a time
I held on to the past

You are my shepherd
You are my guide
Follow your dark eyes
Right into the night
You are my savior
You took control
I came and touched my soul

But why are you
Still overshadowed
By a dark
Only you could see
The love that carries me

Chorus:
I would
walk on water
just to be with you
walk on water
just to be with you
split the ocean
cross the sea
walk on water
if you believe

Chorus:
I would
walk on water
just to be with you
walk on water
just to be with you
split the ocean
cross the sea
walk on water
if you believe

Chorus:
I would
walk on water
just to be with you
walk on water
just to be with you
split the ocean
cross the sea
walk on water
if you believe

Let’s go down to the sound tonight
Tide is low and we can walk on water
Reel me in under that starry light
Just like the fisherman’s daughter

Baby when the bands and the barkers go home
They say that Venus she rises
From out of the foam
She dances on air and laughs at the moon
And watches young lovers in fiery dunes

So are you willing to wait for the miracle
Willing to wait it through
Are you willing to wait for the miracle
Or don’t you believe they’re true?

There’s an old man sitting by the side of the pier
He’s got his cross and his camera
And his bottle of beer
He just sits all day and all through the night
Praying for a vision or a heavenly light

‘Cause he’s willing to wait for the miracle
Willing to wait it through
He’s willing to wait for the miracle
What else is he gonna do?
What else is he gonna do?

Now me I don’t need no heavenly sign
‘Cause I got the water and the wine
So baby please let your lovelight shine
‘Cause we’re all gonna meet our maker
Sometime

That’s why I’m willing to wait for the miracles
I’m willing to wait them through
I’m willing to wait for the miracles
But I just can’t wait — for you
Just can’t wait for you
Let’s go down to the sound tonight
And walk on water
Walk on water
Walk on water

If you see me walking down the street
And I start to cry each time we meet
Walk on by, walk on by

Make believe
That you don’t see the tears
Just let me grieve
In private ’cause each time I see you
I break down and cry

And walk on by
Walk on by
Walk on by

I just can’t get over losing you
And so if I seem broken and blue
Walk on by, walk on by

Foolish pride
Is all that I have left
So let me hide
The tears and the sadness you gave me
When you said goodbye
Walk on by
Walk on by
Walk by (don’t stop)

Go ahead and walk on by
Don’t stop just walk on by

Walk on by, walk on by
Foolish pride
Is all that I have left
So let me hide
The tears and the sadness you gave me
When you said goodbye

Walk on by
And walk on by
Go ahead and walk on by
Don’t stop just walk on by

All eyes on me
catastrophe
I don?t believe astrology
what i choose
i pay my dues
thats all okay
my egos bruised

hear the sounds
falling from their mouths
falling from their mouth
and i know
there’s no one left to blame
its me who that went insane
can?t put out the flame
along the walk of shame

last night i spent
throwing out my scent
that really wasn?t
what i meant
eyebrows i raised
in a drunken haze
and I’m the only one who pays

ohhh no!
everybody knows!
everybody knows!!

and i see
there’s no one left to blame
its me who that went insane
can?t put out the flame
along the walk of shame

hear the sounds
falling from their mouths
falling from their mouth
and i know
there’s no one left to blame
its me who that went insane
can?t put out the flame
he?s the only who came
along the walk of shame

And love is not the easy thing
The only baggage you can bring…
And love is not the easy thing…
The only baggage you can bring
Is all that you can’t leave behind

And if the darkness is to keep us apart
And if the daylight feels like it’s a long way off
And if your glass heart should crack
And for a second you turn back
Oh no, be strong

Walk on, walk on
What you got they can?t steal it
No they can?t even feel it
Walk on, walk on…
Stay safe tonight

You’re packing a suitcase for a place none of us has been
A place that has to be believed to be seen
You could have flown away
A singing bird in an open cage
Who will only fly, only fly for freedom

Walk on, walk on
What you’ve got they can’t deny it
Can?t sell it, can?t buy it
Walk on, walk on
Stay safe tonight

And I know it aches
And your heart it breaks
And you can only take so much
Walk on, walk on

Home… hard to know what it is if you?ve never had one
Home… I can?t say where it is but I know I’m going home
That’s where the hurt is

I know it aches
How your heart it breaks
And you can only take so much
Walk on, walk on

Leave it behind
You’ve got to leave it behind
All that you fashion
All that you make
All that you build
All that you break
All that you measure
All that you steal
All this you can leave behind
All that you reason
All that you sense
All that you speak
All you dress up
All that you scheme…