Walk It Off Slow

Lyrics — written by hand

(Hey) boots on, sky wide

Grief is a dog that follows you home,
it won't be argued with or fed.
So I take the long way round the hill
and let it trot behind instead.

Two miles in, the shoulders drop.
Three miles in, the jaw lets go.
Nothing got solved and nothing got said —
but the body already knows.

Walk it off slow,
not away from the thing, but through.
Left foot, right foot, that's the whole trick,
and the road will do half of it too.

Past the school and the shuttered garage,
past the man who waters at noon.
Nobody here is asking how I am,
and today that's a kindness, not a wound.

Walk it off slow,
not away from the thing, but through.
Left foot, right foot, that's the whole trick,
and the road will do half of it too.

Everything heavy gets lighter in motion,
ask any river, ask any crow.
You can't think your way out of a Tuesday.
You can only go.

Walk it off slow,
not away from the thing, but through.
Left foot, right foot, that's the whole trick,
and the road will do half of it too.

(Hey) don't outrun it — outlast it.
(Hey) breathe on the rise, and the rise will be past.