"The Walk" is a song by the English rock band the Cure, released as a stand-alone single in June 1983. It later appeared on their second compilation album Japanese Whispers. It was recorded when the band was briefly reduced to the two founder members Robert Smith and Lol Tolhurst upon the departure of bassist Simon Gallup in mid-1982, following the end of the band's tour in support of their fourth studio album Pornography. According to Tolhurst, they chose Steve Nye as producer at the time due to his work on the fifth and final studio album Tin Drum (1981) by the English new wave band Japan. Tolhurst later commented: "It was the first time we had worked with a 'proper' producer, as opposed to doing production with an engineer that we really liked. […] He was able to make electronic instruments sound more natural, and that's what we wanted."