My Gen X Playlist: Walk This Way – Run DMC

Daily writing prompt

Go on a walk today and share a photo of something that catches your eye.

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Steps. I need more of them. Sitting is the new smoking they say. The only difference is I love smoking, but don’t. Having a smoke is completely relaxing. Too bad I can’t light one up while taking a stroll.

I worked with a friend that smoked a pack a day. I don’t blame her. She was highly successful and with success, comes stress. She retired over ten years ago and I hear she now walks over five miles daily and looks fabulous. I asked a friend if she still smokes. Like a chimney. Some habits die harder than others.

I don’t get a huge step count, but try to rack up a few after dinner. I always bring my phone because I need to see how many steps I’ve collected to make me feel better. I’m not much of a picture taker on my walks. It’s just suburbia, nothing too fascinating. Except once a gigantic coyote crossed our path. It scared the shit out of me. I was more concerned about living than snapping a National Geographic shot. That’s the most excitement I’ve had on my walks in recent years. But you never know. Something interesting might pop up someday. I’ll keep an eye out with my camera ready at a moments notice.

I’m not a huge rap fan, but I did like Run DMC back in the day. Walking made me think of Walk This Way when they covered the Aerosmith song. Forty years later, this still sounds pretty good.

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Now there's a backseat/lover
That's always under/cover
And I talk til my daddy say
Said you ain't seen/nuthin
Til you're down on her/muffin
And there's sure to be a change in ways
Now there's a cheer/leader
That's a real big/pleaser
As far as I can remi/nisce
But the best thing/love it
Was her sister and her/cousin
And it started with a little kiss, like this

She starts/swingin
With the boys in/tune
And her feet just fly up in the air
Singin hey diddle diddle with a kitty in the middle
And they swingin like it just don't care
So I took a big/chance
At the high school/dance
With a lady who was ready to play
It wasn't me she was/foolin
Cause she knew what was she was/doin
when she told me how to walk this way

[Chorus: Run-D.M.C. and Aerosmith]

She told me to
Walk this way!
Talk this way!
[repeat 2X]
[repeat all 2X]
Well just gimme a kiss/some head!
Oooh, a-like this!

[Run-D.M.C.]
School girl/sleazy
With a/classy kind of sassy
Little skirt hangin way up her knee
It was three young ladies
In the school gym/locker
And they find they were lookin D
I was high school/loser
Never made it with a/lady
Til a boy told me somethin I missed
That my next door/neighbor
had a daughter/had a favor
And I gave the girl just a little kiss, like this

[Aerosmith]
She starts swingin with the boys in the school
with her feet flyin up in the air
Singing hey diddle diddle with a kitty in the middle
I was swingin like I didn't care
So I took a big chance at the high school dance
With a miss who was ready to play
Wasn't me she was foolin cause she knew what she was doin
when she told me how to walk this way

[Chorus]