Dead Man Walking Lyrics - Mary Chapin Carpenter

You never had a dream like this 

Never felt the cold cold steel 

Slam you like a fist 

Break you down until you kneel 

Just like a beggar man 

Asking only for redemption 

All the things that can't 

Make a man believe in heaven 

Fix your eyes upon the bars 

Memorize their other side 

Like the tatoos on your arms 

The brag so loud and tough that night 

But now the truth comes out 

Fast as feel can do your talking 

It sets you free as one guard shouts 

Dead man walking 

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When neither light nor darkness 

When neither night or day 

When neither kind nor heartless 

When neither lost or saved 

When neither still or moved 

When neither held or free 

Oh to be so human 

Dead man walking 

When neither light nor darkness 

When neither night or day 

When neither kind nor heartless 

When neither lost or saved 

When neither still or moved 

When neither held or free 

Oh to be so human 

Oh to be 

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Somewhere in a dream like this where 

Light of love leads us home 

Broken worlds will not be fixed 

if vengeance take us as thy own 

We're just like beggars now 

On our knees we hear our names 

God forgives somehow 

We have yet to learn to save