Yeah, time just slips away, yeah
I live life like a renegade drifter
Losing myself on the open road
Running from the pains of a sinner
'Cause ain't no Band-Aid for a broken soul
The Devil's steady tearing out the best of me (best of me)
Screaming "fair game" but he must've lied (must've lied)
'Cause now there ain't too much left of me (left of me)
But I ain't slowing down until I'm justified (I'm justified)
'Cause I done been steady swingin'
At the bottom of a hangman's rope
Maybe it's a sad plan dreaming, I'm a madman screaming
But I can't stop believing there's hope, oh Lord
Like a dead man walking back from the grave to find where I went wrong
Everything I love is dead and gone
Every night I sing this dead man's song
I got hell on a trigger, got a bottle of Jack and I'm right where I belong
Stuck in between heaven and being dead wrong
So from here until I'm dead and gone
I'm a dead man walking (walking, walking)
(Yeah, yeah)
A dead man walkin', yeah, this the long one
This life has got me barely holding by a single thread
Gripping on my pistol, squeezing triggers until my finger's red
A lot of folks they like to judge, nudging then they hang their head
Hypocrites that don't give a shit
No common sense don't bring the dead
Name calling and pointing fingers and laying blame don't bother me
As long as y'all don't touch me, my family and my property
My prophecy wasn't prodigy, in the ground I'll probably be
But I'm standing up and I'm raisin' hell so won't you come and follow me?
I'm a cornered up, pissed off, cracker in a cage
Get you one coin missed call, take it to the grave
I guess I'll take the mask off and let you judge me
But the looking didn't last long 'cause bitch I'm ugly
I can't blend in, eyes cut you to the bone
Now my covers been blown, I'm supposed to be alone
Like a hairpin trigger kill, I don't know we're wrong
But I keep singing this song and I'm stuck under a stone
Like a dead man walking back from the grave to find where I went wrong
Everything I love is dead and gone
Every night I sing this dead man's song
I got hell on a trigger, got a bottle of Jack and I'm right where I belong
Stuck in between heaven and being dead wrong
So from here until I'm dead and gone
I'm a dead man walking (walking)
Oh yeah
I'm a dead man walkin'
I'm a dead man walkin'
I said, I said
I'm a dead, I'm a dead, I'm a dead, I'm a dead man walkin', aww
Like a dead man walking back
From the grave to find where I went wrong
Everything I love is dead and gone
Every night I sing this dead man's song
I got hell on a trigger, got a bottle of Jack and I'm right where I belong
Stuck in between heaven and being dead wrong
So from here until I'm dead and gone
I'm a dead man walking
I'm a dead man walking
I'm a dead man walking
I'm a dead man walking
I'm a dead man walking
I'm a dead man walking
I'm a dead man wal-wal-wal-walking
I'm a dead man walking
Devil had his shot and he took it
It was a flesh wound but it'll heal eventually
In the end it was comfort that brought me down
I got comfortable
Comfortable with life
Comfortable with how strong I thought I was
But every man must fall eventually
I did a lot of bad things
Hurt a lot of people
I lost everything 'cause of it
Now I walk this desert, my prison, my punishment
But I'll find my way home eventually