A Song That Could Change Your Financial Life

The Song Is Called Take A Walk By Passion Pit (M Machine Remix)

It’s a beautiful remix.

How many of us have said “walk a mile in my shoes”.  First off why would anybody want your shoes of countless mistakes. Maybe you need new shoes or maybe it ain’t the shoes that need to be changed.

I’ve been listening to a song in the video above by a group called Passion Pit. The song is Take A Walk and is the M Machine remix. It’s an awesome remix of the song for more reasons than the number of times I’ve listened to it.  As I listened to the song and thought about the words the play and rewind buttons on my iPod became a symbol of our financial behavior. We play only to get reset back to where we started never taking into account our past mistakes. We instead are doomed to repeat them until we are “praying on both bad knees”.

Do you have financial failures that play over like a broken record? If you are stuck on repeat, push the pause button and stop for a moment to think. Look up the definition of insanity with a mirror in one hand. Are you extremely foolish? Have you been irrational about your personal finances? You might have to come to terms with the roads you have taken. If you are asking yourself “is this going somewhere?” That’s the exact question you should be asking. Stop walking and ask somebody for directions.

 

Here are the lyrics in case you just aren’t in to this genre of music enough to listen through it:

 

Take a Walk – Passion Pit

All these kinds of places

Make it seem like it’s been ages

And tomorrow’s sun and buildings scrape the sky.

I love this country dearly

I can feel the latter clearly

But I never thought I’d be alone to try.

Once I was outside Penn station

Selling red and white carnations

We were still alone, my wife and I.

Before we married, saved my money

Brought my dear wife over.

Now I work to bring my family stateside.

Got off the boat, they stayed a while

then scattered ‘cross the coast.

Once a year I’ll see them for a week or so at most.

I took a walk

(take a walk, take a walk, take a walk)

(take a walk, take a walk, take a walk)

Ohh-ohh-ohh-ohh

I took a walk

(take a walk, take a walk, take a walk)

(take a walk, take a walk, take a walk)

Ohh-ohh-ohh-ohh-ohh-ohh-ohh

Practice isn’t perfect

but the market cuts a loss.

I remind myself that times could be much worse.

My wife won’t ask me questions-

there’s not so much to ask.

And she’ll never flaunt around an empty purse.

Once my mother-in-law came

Just to stay a couple nights

And decided she would stay the rest of her life.

I watch my little children

Play some boardgame in the kitchen

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And I sit and pray they never feel my strife.

But then my partner called to say the pension funds were gone

He made some bad investments, now the accounts are overdrawn

I took a walk.

(take a walk, take a walk, take a walk)

(take a walk, take a walk, take a walk)

Ohh-ohh-ohh-ohh

I took a walk

(take a walk, take a walk, take a walk)

(take a walk, take a walk, take a walk)

Ohh-ohh-ohh-ohh-ohh-ohh-ohh

“Honey, it’s your son”

I think I borrowed just too much.

We had taxes, we had bills, we had a lifestyle to front.

And tonight I swear I’ll come home and we’ll make love like we’re young.

Tomorrow , you’ll cook dinner for the neighbors and their kids.

We can rip apart the socialists and all their damn taxes.

You see I am no criminal, I’m down on both bad knees.

I’m just too much a coward to admit when I’m in need.

I took a walk.

(take a walk, take a walk, take a walk)

(take a walk, take a walk, take a walk)

Ohh-ohh-ohh-ohh

I took a walk

(take a walk, take a walk, take a walk)

(take a walk, take a walk, take a walk)

Ohh-ohh-ohh-ohh-ohh-ohh-ohh

I took a walk

(take a walk, take a walk, take a walk)

(take a walk, take a walk, take a walk)

Ohh-ohh-ohh-ohh

I took a walk

(take a walk, take a walk, take a walk)

(take a walk, take a walk, take a walk)

Ohh-ohh-ohh-ohh-ohh-ohh-ohh