Music and Lyrics by Alastair Moock ©1997 Moockshake Music
We don’t wanna soar like two birds upon the night
Or be two shining lightbulbs and be a source of light
Or take safari game walks and risk a lion bite
Or look like Patrick Ewing, we don’t want that height
We don’t wanna battle with the racist at the gate
Or have to be his teachers and teach him not to hate
Don’t wanna spout our morals or either let them bend
We just wanna walk, me and my friend
Don’t wanna lead the buddhists like the Dala Lami
Or box with rhyming masters like Muhammad Ali
Or starve ourselves in protest like Mahatma Gandhi
Or wear black leather jackets like, hey, fonzy
And we don’t wanna shout from the mountains in the air
Or fight a million battles with those who never care
We don’t wanna gender fight with earless, eyeless men
We just wanna walk, me and my friend
We don’t wanna blaze like the sun up in the sky
Or sing May the Circle Be Unbroken By and By
Or be the Grateful Dead and always getting high
Or be like Kirk Cobaine, committing suicide
Or wear big wooden shoes like the traditional Dutch
Or be two police coppers like Starsky and Hutch
Or be a guy from Sweden with a Swedish name like Sven
We just wanna walk, me and my friend
Don’t wanna fiddle from the rooftops like Zero Mostel
Or be a sports newscaster like Howard Cossell
Or sing ’bout Coffee Crumbcakes riding my coattail
Or sleep at Clinton’s White House, his big fundraising hotel
And we don’t wanna drench the fire in the hills
Or fight a four year battle like the Buffalo Bills
Or even win the battle which we always must defend
We just wanna walk, me and my friend
Don’t wanna write no classics like Pearl S. Buck
Or run on rafts from slavery like Tom and Huck
Or be like blonde Savannah, a well paid fuck
Or be like Donald Trump, another well paid fuck
Or be apartheid’s symbol like F.W. de Klerk
Or a revolutionary who turns out to be a jerk
Don’t wanna follow leaders or either any trends
We just wanna walk, me and my friend
So pack your shit together and get out of our sight
And don’t even mention your newest awful fright
Don’t count us in on your newest protest fight
‘Cuz we’ll be disappeared like two shadows in the night
And don’t come searching for us with your big liberal flashlight
‘Cuz we’ll be disappeared like two shadows in the night
And we won’t be calling soon, we’ve got no message to send
We just wanna walk, me and my friend