Lyrics to
Walking In The Wind

This version of Walking In The Wind was released by Traffic in 1974.

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You walk and talk and move around in circles
Your friends telling you you are doing fine
You can’t see that snowball as it hurtles
Through the shattered membranes of your mind
If I could talk to you for just one minute
Then you would know what it is I am getting at
But there again your head’s got nothing in it
By the way you left without your hat

I’m walking in the wind looking at the sky
Hanging on a breeze and wondering why, why
Your old man’s headed for the final pay-off
The joker that you got is fading too
And all the sharks that come around for the rip-off
Are gonna tear the flesh right off you

The plastic princess hangs her head in wonder at the silver glittered boys
Trying, trying to compete
And all at once the room begins to thunder
And all that’s left is the stain on the sheet

The prostitute is standing on the corner
Suffering so much pain to stay alive
She’s so real, that life itself bows down before her
She couldn’t make that nine to five
While the president is crying, crying in the White House
The prime minister’s really got the blues
All the heads of state are busy playing cat & mouse
‘Cause you can see none of them have ever paid their dues

God knows why, why, why

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About Lyrics and Walking In The Wind by Traffic

The lyrics for Walking In The Wind are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1974 song by Traffic. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Walking In The Wind have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Walking In The Wind - Traffic and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Walking In The Wind by Traffic in multiple ways. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Walking In The Wind" means the words set to the music of Walking In The Wind, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Traffic. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Walking In The Wind and the lyrics to Walking In The Wind are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Traffic who came here looking just for the lyrics to Walking In The Wind, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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