Feelsongs: Land Locked Blues -- Bright Eyes

If you walk away, I'll walk away First tell me which road you will take
I don't want to risk our paths crossing some day So you walk that way, I'll walk this way And the future hangs over our heads And it moves with each current event Until it falls all around like a cold steady rain
Just stay in when it's looking this way

And the moon's laying low in the sky Forcing everything metal to shine
And the sidewalk holds diamonds like the jewelry store case
They argue walk this way, no, walk this way And Laura's asleep in my bed
As I'm leaving she wakes up and says "I dreamed you were carried away on the crest of a wave Baby don't go away, come here"

And there's kids playing guns in the street And ones pointing his tree branch at me So I put my hands up I say "enough is enough, If you walk away, I'll walk away" And he shot me dead I found a liquid cure From my landlocked blues
It'll pass away like a slow parade It's leaving but I don't know how soon

And the world's got me dizzy again You think after 22 years I'd be used to the spin
And it only feels worse when I stay in one place So I'm always pacing around or walking away I keep drinking the ink from my pen And I'm balancing history books up on my head But it all boils down to one quotable phrase
If you love something, give it away A good woman will pick you apart
A box full of suggestions for your possible heart But you may be offended and you may be afraid But don't walk away, don't walk away

We made love on the living room floor With the noise in the background of a televised war And in the deafening pleasure I thought I heard someone say
"If we walk away, they'll walk away" But greed is a bottomless pit
And our freedom's a joke   We're just taking a piss And the whole world must watch the sad comic display If you're still free start running away
Cause we're coming for you! I've grown tired of holding this pose
I feel more like a stranger each time I come home So I'm making a deal with the devils of fame Saying "let me walk away, please" You'll be free child once you have died From the shackles of language and measurable time
And then we can trade places, play musical graves
Till then walk away, walk away

So I'm up at dawn Putting on my shoes I just want to make a clean escape
I'm leaving but I don't know where to I know I'm leaving but I don't know
where to                                                                                                                  (sing365)

This song is about the Iraq war, which the band feels is completely unnecessary. Conor Oberst sings, "There are kids playing guns in the street/and one's pointing his tree branch at me, so I threw my hands up, I said enough is enough, if you walk away, I'll walk away, then he shot me dead." This song suggests that even the youth are marred with violence.