In Your Shoes (alternativ version)

Verse 1] He wakes before the sun arrives Coffee burnt and steel-blue eyes Punches numbers, bends his back Dreams stacked up in a paper sack Downtown skyline glowing gold Somebody buys what somebody sold One sleeps cold beneath the bridge One drinks wine from the highest ridge [Pre-Chorus] Funny how the truth gets used Depending on who's paying dues [Chorus] Walk one mile in your shoes Feel the stone, sing the blues Heavy crown or broken sole Everybody hides a hole You see diamonds, I see scars Same moon hanging over us all Different roads, same human bruise Till you've walked in my shoes [Verse 2] She paints her smile before her shift Carries silence like a gift Everybody says she's free Still afraid to disagree He keeps thunder in his chest Taught that tears don't look their best Built like walls and factory steel Still forgetting how to feel [Pre-Chorus] Everybody draws their line Till life redraws it overnight [Chorus] Walk one mile in your shoes Taste the dust, choke the truth Velvet suit or second-hand blues Pain still leaks right through You see power, I see fear Everybody breaks down here Different masks, same bad news Till you've walked in my shoes [Bridge] The preacher and the runaway The banker and the CNA The beauty queen, the old divorcee All bleed red eventually [Instrumental Break] (Soulful blues guitar solo with vocal-like phrasing, organ swelling underneath) [Final Chorus] Walk one mile in your shoes Carry fire, carry wounds Some are kings and some just lose But nobody escapes these blues Same sky burning over us all Some stand high, some barely crawl Love might be the only truth Waiting in between our shoes [Outro] Yeah... In your shoes... In your shoes...