dj's groovysounds: Can I Walk With You At Least?

Listen to Roy Orbison sing Oh, Pretty Woman:

Pretty Woman, walking down the street
Pretty woman, the kind I'd like to
meet…

Listen to Manfred Mann sing Do Wa Diddy Diddy:

There she was just a-walkin' down the street
Singing do wah diddy
diddy dum diddy do

Listen to the Sir Douglas Quintet doing She's About A Mover:

Well she was walkin' down the street
Looking fine as she could be

Ok what gives? What's with all the chicks walking down the street? Don't they have cars, bus tickets? Can't they get a ride? Where are they walking to? School? Work? Are they steet women?
And it's not just gals either. The guys are walking too. Listen to the Shangri Las do Give Him A Great Big Kiss:

Here comes my guy
Walkin' down the street

And of course who could forget the Crystals (who weren't even the Crystals) do He's A Rebel:
See the way he walks down the street
See the way he shuffles his
feet.
Sometimes the narrator himself is walking down the street, like Robert Lamm, one of Chicago's singers, doing Does Anyone Really Know What Time It Is:
As I was walking down the street one day…

He doesn't say where he was going. He just whines about being asked the time.
Even couples get into the act. The Guess Who sang His Girl:

Look at the way they walk down the street
You can see she's his
girl.

And Them doing Here Comes The Night:
I can see right out my window my girl
Walkin' down the street with
another guy
At least we have an idea what they were up to. Meanwhile, poor Van was having a conniption. And in Gloria, he was having another kind of conniption:
She comes walkin' down my street
Well she comes to my house
She
knock upon my door
Then she come to my room
Then she make me feel
alright…
Well we know why Gloria was walking down the street anyway.

But aside from that, I have a theory. See pop song lyrics don't wax philosophical all too often (okay, forget about U2 for a minute). And what these songs celebrate I think is just the idea of existence. They are metaphysical pop. Don't laugh, bear with me here. We want to sing about how happy we are the so-and-so exists (think of Elton John - "How wonderful life is when you're in the world"). But they can't just sing "Pretty woman, EXISTING" or "there she was BEING." So walking down the street becomes a stand in; it is the most neutral act there is; it has no moral quality, it doesn't reflect anything individual about the person (apart from the object of Manfred's affection, who is not just walking down the street, but is snapping her fingers and shuffling her feet - she must have had an iPod); it is to say, see the way she lives and breathes and just is.
If Descartes had been a songwriter, he would have written "I walk down the street, therefore I am."
Well it's a theory.
Here, by the way, is, in no particular order, a very partial list of more songs that have, in the lyrics, someone walking down the street: