Lyrics for Walking By as interpreted by LittleNemo

Walking By Lyrics
Your grand dad left home for the circus
He was young just like me,
with hope to explore
He married a girl in Virginia
She could swing the trapeze,
they could sleep on the floor

Your mother was born in December,
on the one sunny day that winter gave up
With warm summer eyes that flickered like fireflies,
and she stared at the world

So why do you leave these stories unfinished,
my Cheshire cat doorstop with tears in your eyes?
And why do you look when you've already found it?
And what did you find that would leave you walking by?

She was raised in a New England village
Then she moved to LA with her firefly stare,
and you loved sunset strip when it sparkled
You grew up and you sparkled, but why don't you care?

And why do you leave these stories unfinished,
my Cheshire cat doorstop with tears in your eyes?
And why do you look when you've already found me?
And what did you find that would leave you walking by?

And these nights I get high just from breathing
When I lie here with you I'm sure that I'm real
like that firework over the freeway
I could stay here all day but that's not how you feel

So why do you leave these questions unanswered?
The circus awaits and you're already gone
My Cheshire cat doorstop with fear in your smile,
what makes it so easy for you to be walking by?
And what did I do that you can't seem to want me?
And why do we lie here and whisper goodbyes?
Where can I go that your pictures won't haunt me?
What makes it so easy for you to be walking by?
Walking by

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jitteryjelly
02-05-2008

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this song actually made me cry happy tears. how sad is that??

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chelseaa101
03-26-2008

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this is such a beautiful song.. it makes me cry or want to cry whenever i hear this. SC makes it so depressing and desperate i love it .. its so sad :[

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PrettyPretty_
03-31-2008

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this song makes me cry every time i hear it. even just now, i was in a wonderful mood, and i still am in a good mood. but i just cried when this came on aha.

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tinasoldout
04-23-2008

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this song makes me cry EVERY time i hear it..
i love it with all my heart :)

"so where can i go that your pictures won't haunt me?"

i miss something corporate.

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tinasoldout
04-23-2008

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i love the way everyone cries when they hear this song.
but i don't blame youuuuuuuuuuuuuuz

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Keightastrophe
05-22-2008

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i love this song more than life. To me it is about when you really love someone, but they are blind to that fact. Like when you're with a friend, and they keep talking about someone they like, and they don't realize that you like them.

The line "i could lay here all day, but that's not how you feel"
makes me think it's about a friend that likes to spend time with him, but doesn't want to be with him forever like he does

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trsjmsoco
01-03-2009

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my favorite lines are the "you loved sunset strip when it sparkled
you grew up and you sparkled, but why dont you care"

make me want to cry but so amazing and emotional
i absolutely LOVE andrew

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cooldas
03-21-2009

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This is beautiful, sad song about longing...the girl he loves used to tell him stories, but left them unfinished when she leaves him...

"Chesire cat doorstop"-the chesire cat from "Alice in Wonderland" disappears and reappears, with a big grin on its face...doorstops keep doors open. The girl must have left him without explaining, looking for somebody else. The singer can't let go of the past because she is the "doorstop" keeping the door of the past opened...

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Chadillac22s05
07-27-2009

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This song is just incredible. Everythin Andrew McMahon does is amazing. The live version of Walking By from their DVD is pretty spectacular. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjoPAqTz2Uc I actually prefer this to the original recording.

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jamnj9
11-16-2009

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I think in this song, he loves he greatly and she loves him but she just hasn't realized it yet. He knows she loves him but he can't get her to see it.

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