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Son you gotta walk a mile in my shoes

from Forty Years in the Making by Eddy Morton

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It gets harder and harder to see the world through other peoples eyes. Finding common cause in a multipolar world is the great challenge.

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Son you’ve got to walk a mile in my shoes

Looking through the window of your pane
Travelling down the same road again and again
The tide is sweeping in on history
Closing down sales in the land of the free

Its water under bridges so they say
Its as clear as broken glass day after day after day
Ripping up the earth beneath my feet
Selling me a new world I cant live and I cant beat

She said Son you’ve got to walk a mile in my shoes
Before you know the truth of how much we have to lose
Its easy enough to sing the white mans blues
Son you’ve got to walk a mile in my shoes

You’d sell the very air that we breathe
And if we challenge your intentions then we’re simply asked to leave
But there’s nowhere in this world that we can go
The future ain’t the future when the cold winds hard they blow

Burning up the land to fuel the fire
The sadness of our madness is our insatiable desire
No value but the price is way too high
Drowning all the the oceans on the silver wings we fly

She said Son you’ve got to walk a mile in my shoes
Before you know the truth of how much we have to lose
Its easy enough to sing the white mans blues
Son you’ve got to walk a mile in my shoes

Well its easy come and easy go the same
Theres always someone else that can always take the blame
No walls that you can build to game the game
Its a fight a constant battle to keep alive the flame

Its the quiet glance the nuanced game we play
Its the things that are never said not the things that we say
The mundane and the grinding day to day
In the end they wear you down till you no longer want to play

She said Son you’ve got to walk a mile in my shoes
Before you know the truth of how much we have to lose
Its easy enough to sing the white mans blues
Son you’ve got to walk a mile in my shoes

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from Forty Years in the Making, released September 30, 2020

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Eddy Morton Stourbridge, UK

As the founder member of The New Bushbury Mountain Daredevils Eddy Morton toured the UK and Europe constantly for eleven years releasing 8 albums During which time the band appeared at every major Folk/Roots Festival in the UK and Europe including Cambridge, Cropredy, Skagen, Guildford, Dranouter, The Badentreffen and many more. His latest solo release Rainbow Man is available on iTunes ... more

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