These Shoes
Album: Something Worth Standing For
By: AndrewMcKnight
By: AndrewMcKnight
Duration
3:26
Genres
Description
My wife is from Panama, and I have learned to listen differently to the strains of Spanish on the streets of America. The journey here from the south is perilous and harsh, and I’ve come to wonder if I were the one living there, if I could find the courage to undertake it. Words & music A. McKnight, 2006©Catalooch Music, BMI
Lyrics
Verse 1 In the darkness, in the desert searchlights glare, and there's gunshots and shouting but somehow I slipped by, only God knows why, the trucker dropped me at the Arkansas line Verse 2 Where I come from, is where the drugs run, and the men come with money and lust for honest living, I hope God's forgiving, for I left my family for this one chance at hope Chorus And I, have dreams just like you If I, let you walk in these shoes would you be here Verse 3 Scars and scratches, chemical rashes, no one trusts me to do more than clean but, I've got secrets, I've learned English someday the name on the door will be mine Chorus Break Verse 4 For all the politicians, state their positions, collecting campaign cash to build a wall behind them but I do work you won't, dirty jobs you don't, and all I ask is the right to be human Chorus twice
