WALK MUSIC

There's something I like about walking. Not walking somewhere, or 
some way, but walking as an act in itself. As an occupation, 
solitary amonst a crowd, as a defying purpose shielding one's self 
against other people around. Going somewhere to be nowhere. 
Although I'm not productively musical, it inspires me musically. 
The walk is the beat, and that beat is the story of the walker.

The idea of walking as an escape is quite powerful. I thought about 
someone walking away from some horrific act, an act that entirely 
alienates them from the people they walk amongst, yet they blend in 
perfectly, screaming only within their own mind. I recorded it a 
couple of years ago, on this old 90s computer so it cut out when I 
ran out of disk space, but in a way that just makes it more 
enigmatic:

gopher://aussies.space/s/~freet/cupboard/citizen.wav

Tonight I pursued a different angle. More subtle, it doesn't hold 
up on its own lyrically like 'Citizen', but it's more complex, and 
it's more about me, but not quite. It's also contradictory and 
borderline gibberish, but emotion is like that.

I keep on walking on,
until the question asks what the answer's done.

You want to set me free,
into the world I ask of reality.

But as you look at me,
do you sense the freedom that you would see?

So we keep walking on,
until the question asks what the answer's done.

Point me wherever looks like fun,
and I'll walk on through like I'm that someone.

I'll keep on walking on,
until the question asks what the answer's done.

I'll keep on walking on,
until the world is true and I'm the only one.

Dream in this world I know,
and make it like I want it so.

Tell me what I can hear,
and tell these dreams to disappear.

I keep on walking on,
until the question asks what the answer's done.

Let me go adrift at sea,
a way to be so differently.

Make these games as you would play,
in the distant land of reality.

I keep on walking on,
until the question asks what the answer's done.

I keep on walking on,
until the world is true and I'm the only one.

 - The Free Thinker