Walk It Off

[F]I crawled home
to tell [C]mommy…
[G]? BUT DADDY SAID

left 1/2 my knee on the corner of my dreams
limping home with injury
a walk of shame full the humility
hopped to my front door
where daddy said once more

I’m a little kid riding on my skateboard. What would cause such an injury? a trick! slide, grind, Heelflip Mute grab, frontside 50-50 kickflip out, FIFTY and EIGHTY rhyme with injury. airborne rhymes with skateboard.

when I’m riding on my skateboard
it’s only fun when I’m airborne
almost landed my * heelflip-mute-grab-front-side-kick-flipout * 50-50
now limping home with an injury
a walk of shame to my front door
where daddy said once more:

3/17/25 (dit dit, dit dit, dit dit)

riding bikes like Evel Knievel planned it
my banana seat did not stick the landing
I’m hurt and bleeding
it’s an emergency
I crawled home
to tell mommy:

I’s [D]playing too [G]hard
cuz [D]I almost cut it [G]off
I’m [D]bleeding to [G]death
then [C]daddy
[D]said

[chorus]
[C]Walk it [G]off
[C]Walk it [G]off
[C]Walk it [G]off
Walk it [A]off [A]

[C]Walk it [G]off
[C]Walk it [G]off
[C]Walk it [G]off
[A] daddy [A] said

[F]It’s too far [C]from your heart
[F]rub some [C]dirt on it
[F]don’t do [C]that [D]again

[G]Walk it [C]off
[G]Walk it [C]off
and [D]don’t do [G]that
a[C]gain

Almost cut it off: keep injuries closer to cuts rather than bumps and bruises. Show blood, dripping, gushing, oozing, slashed open, pooling, wound, emergency, need help, spurting, seeping, leaking, fountain like, my bored gangster friends cruising the trailer park looking for adventure nothing to do. You had to be an engineer back then to build your own fun. Playing the Evel Knievel game was ultimate extreme sport. Steeling neighbor’s plywood to concoct a ramp at the bottom of Dirt Mountain to see who can jump the farthest, the highest, who can win the title, who has the most __. After working up the nerve to go down the ramp, I hit the ramp and was launched so high in the air the bike started floating out from under me. I was holding on with my heart racing, still floating, until I felt the banana seat
My racing heart was holding on
hospital, was little, shot like a pistol, middle, accidental
pedal, accidental, special, accidental, special, hospital
said, dead, BLED, ragged, imagine, RED, instead,
ramps, chance,
launching off ramps, landing did not go well
more I pedal, the more I bled, back home I said:
I KNOW I need a stitch
I’m gonna be the shit
I wear my scars with honor
x
x
clutch, pinch, wish, crutch, big, begin, admit, CHIN, and win,
left 1/2 my knee on the corner of my dreams
limping home after injury
a walk of shame full the humility
we terrorize the trailer park gripping handle bars
Last: put a band aid on a squirt-er
can’t put a Band-Aid on a squirt-er

• 15 Crappy plastic Band-Aids, pulls off scab
• Band-Aid on a squirter
• left 1/2 my knee on the corner of my dreams
• local dog mad a pin cusion out of me
• no more monkeys jumping on the bed
• Poked my ass with penisicilin
• I’m the shit because I got stiches
• *reward at the end of the pan
• don’t touch my moonpies
• humility to crawl home akin to the adult walk of shame
• more bruises are like a badge of honor
• casts itch, be an engineer to scratch. outcast can scratch my itch
• Do you have a death with son?
• Banana seat!

riding my old banana seat my bored friends and me
playing Evel Knievel games we don’t care about no pain
flying through air at the trailer park gripping my handle bars
foot slipped off the pedal the landing didn’t go so well
get me home I’m bleeding it’s an emergency
at my front door covered in red, when my dad said:

left 1/2 of my knee
on the corner of my dreams
crawled to my front door
where daddy said once more

3/16/25

[pre-chorus]

I’s [D]playing too [G]hard
cuz [D]I almost cut it [G]off
I’m [D]bleeding to [G]death
when [C]daddy [D]said

[chorus]
[G]Walk it [C]off
[G]Walk it [C]off
just [G]walk it [C]off
he [D]said
[F]It’s too far [C]from your heart
[F]rub some [C]dirt on it
[F]don’t do [C]that [D]again
[G]Walk it [C]off
[G]Walk it [C]off
just [G]walk it [C]off
daddy [D]said
[G]Walk it [C]off
[G]Walk it [C]off
just [G]walk it [C]off
[D]don’t do [C]that [G]again