You take a lick or two when you try to save the world
Well, it doesn't really happen for you
Take a look around, playboy
Everything they know about you
You tell 'em that they're wrong
Well, you shoulda coulda would you
Then you'd lose all the fight in that dog

Now maybe I'm not the one
I know that it don't make sense
'Cause everyone jacks our shit, ah baby
When you tell me there's nothing left
Ain't true, and that jig is up
Now show me you're something, step by step

Take a walk in my shoes
Ah, I'm something brand new
Something, baby
Don't you talk down to me
When you're talking to me in my shoes

We're living on a prayer, man
On a double dog dare, yeah
You rock me like a wagon wheel
Yeah, you're going nowhere fast
Lesson to be learned, man
Everything's for sale
And yeah, the writing's on the wall
There's too many cats on my tail

Now maybe I'm not the one
I know that it don't make sense
'Cause everyone jacks our shit, ah baby
When you tell me there's nothing left
Ain't true, and that jig is up
Now show me you're something, step by step

Take a walk in my shoes
Ah, I'm something brand new
Something, baby
Don't you talk down to me
When you're talking to me in my shoes

Take a walk in my shoes
Ah, ain't so easy to do now
Oh, no, no, no
Don't you talk down to me
Yeah, you know what it means in my shoes

Took a lick or two when you tried to save the world, then
Yeah, it took a couple years
All in all, it got you here
It's one hell of a story, man
But don't let it go to your head
You can't be talking until you're walking in my shoes

Take a walk in my shoes
Ah, I'm something brand new
Something, baby
Don't you talk down to me
When you're talking to me in my shoes

Take a walk in my shoes
Ah, ain't so easy to do now
Oh, no, no, no
Don't you talk down to me
Yeah, you know what it means in my shoes