Brown Bag AllStars - In His Shoes lyrics

Yo she puts a pair of black heels
On and looks in the mirror at
A pair of dark circles under eyes
That are peering at her
She gives herself a pep talk
Like every other morning
Then pops a pill to level out
Like when we’re done recording
It’s a battlefield from her
Door to the train
‘cause every man’ll feel like he could
Get her mood to change on some "baby girl
Baby girl damn your body fly as such"
They never seem to comment on her
Heart and mind as much
She went from loving her curves
That her mama gave her
To disgusted and disturbed from
Their raw behaviour
She stumbles toward the platform
The train squeals in close
And then she breaks down and not
Because her heel just broke

He lace his boots up tight
He never know when It’ll pop off
It sounds like bottle rockets flying
They lying with tops lost
The feeble he’d come to know
But never too well of all you can be
That sentence seemed to sentence him to hell
He fell for it
Dwells on the marks on the paper
Made to say they own him
He sent his fate with a paper mate
And man he ain’t known then
See pencils can erase mistakes
But ink sinks in
He’s thinking his sins won’t fade away
The day to day, passes, he lacks the hope
So he stays awake and feels great
Harassing locals
Ashamed what the situation made him into
But who are we to say until
We stepped in his shoes

So walk a mile in his shoes, let me show you
Bottle clutched to his side
He can barely stand up on his own two
Messed up, too many drugs, drunk
Same exact reason that his daughter won’t
Pick up his phone calls no more soul now
To the liquor store where he buys even
More wishing he could hide his pain
People stopping and they’re staring
In the street, call him names
And he gotta be his own worst enemy
All the same and he knows that more with
Every step he takes
And he’s feeling like a dead
Man walking to his grave
Seeing unfamiliar faces in a
Place he’s always known
Cops another bag of blow
Wonders why he’s all alone

The alarm strikes 9: 05 in the AM
Another day of in disguise ‘til the day ends
We’re always told that this world’s
The right way to live
Then how come life is a fight
To pay the price for this
And, never see a benefit
For ever seeing deficit's
Together dreaming never gets
Never got a college loan
Not my fault my father’s broke
A week in, a month off
Never brought a dollar home
See, wasn’t taught that I should’ve
Fought more for him
The front door shut, dreams are crushed
They’ve fallen black suit, black tie
Loosen up the black shoes
Never want to put on and face it
But, I had to