2025 Competition Entry:

I Walk Down by KOLB

Genre

Folk

Artist

Co-writer(s)

no

Performer(s)

Just me, Chris Kolb

Description

That paranoia of losing it all, all that I’ve worked so hard to build – my family

Bio

See bio for other submission Classic

Lyrics

INTRO 1]
L HAND OCTAVES:
F D G C
R HAND ARPEGGIOS:
F A F A F A C F D F D F D E F B F B F B G E C E C E C E

[INTRO 2]
F Dm G C x 1

[VERSE – SAME AS INTRO]
F Dm G C
I walk, I walk down, down this street of broken dreams
F Dm G C
My gut can be seen beneath my dirty teeth and my jeans are busting at the seams
F Dm G C
Double chin, double vision, double meanings, and the spaces between
F Dm G C
And the glaring sun. It’s glaring at me beaming down your small and ornery
F Dm G C
This life I describe no it ain’t mine has no meaning because it ain’t time
F Dm G C
Maybe someday at the bottom of rock I’ll plod alone and blubber a watery rhyme
F Dm G C
It’s my worry my greatest fear that I’m a fraud that I am queer
F Dm G C
I am queer. queer to this world queer to this country – this family. Queer to my girls
F Dm G C
And the wandering eyes. And the spies. The delusions and the fear
F Dm G C
The aching impulse and the angst the depression that swallows me whole
F Dm G C
So I grit my teeth against my jaw. I clench my fists and bite my lip
F Dm G C
Should I let the tears go. Just let em flow like a river to the salty sea
F Dm G C
To the salty me rust stains on my bones won’t ya take me in won’t ya take me home
[OUTRO 1]
L HAND OCTAVE:
C A F G G
R HAND CHORDS:
C/G/C4/C5 Am/Am6/Am7 F/G/F2/F3 F/G G/A
[OUTRO 2 – REPEAT INTRO 1 – TOP]

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