Walk On

Track 4 on All That You Can’t Leave Behind (20th Anniversary Edition / Super Deluxe / Remastered 2020)

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Walk On is dedicated to Burmese democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi and is about her struggle to fight for a democratic Burma. Updated Dedication 2020: The new updated… Read More

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Walk On Lyrics

[Intro]
And love is not the easy thing
The only baggage that you can bring
Love is not the easy thing
The only baggage you can bring
Is all that you can't leave behind

[Verse 1]
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

[Chorus]
Oh, oh, 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

[Verse 2]
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

[Chorus]
Oh, oh, walk on, walk on
What you've got they can't deny it
Can't sell it or 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

[Bridge]
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 heart is

[Chorus]
And I know it aches
And your heart it breaks
And you can only take so much
Walk on (Ooh)
Leave it behind
You've got to leave it behind

[Outro]
All that you fashion
All that you make
All that you build
All that you break
All that you measure
All that you feel
All this you can leave behind
All that you reason
All that you care
It's only time
And I'll never fill up all my mind
All that you sense
All that you speak
All you dress up
And all that you scheme
All you create
All that you wreck
All that you hate

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Walk On is dedicated to Burmese democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi and is about her struggle to fight for a democratic Burma.

Updated Dedication 2020:

The new updated 2020 dedication at the end of Walk On music video says: “This song is dedicated to the Rohingya People whose human rights have been so persistently and brutally denied.”

U2 stated in 2017 in an open letter that they were disappointed by Aung’s silence over the brutal suppression from the very government she was elected to represent: “Who could have predicted that if more than 600,000 people were fleeing from a brutal army for fear of their lives, the woman who many of us believed would have the clearest and loudest voice on the crisis would go quiet. For these atrocities against the Rohingya people to be happening on her watch blows our minds and breaks our hearts.”