Hard whiskey and rum   Feels like I'm living   Under god's thumb   Poeple say it all the time   That my life   It ain't worth a dime      Now I cry   And I try moving to   A land that is new   I been walking the mile   In a dead man's shoes   I dead man's shoes      Got this planet on my back   One foot forward   Fifty steps back   My body holds an empty heart   Looks like an ending   I know it's no start      Will I die   When I try travelin' through   Pass the light that is true   Feel I'm walking god's mile   In a dead man's shoes   In a dead man's shoes      It's not that my soul's fallen down   Encased in a rust growing round   The preacher he won't pray for me   Am I trapped in this life eternally      Now I cry   When I try   Passing through   The light of a new   Going mile after mile   In a dead man's shoes   In a dead man's shoes   In a dead man's shoes   In a dead man's shoes