DEAD MAN WALKING (A DREAM LIKE THIS)  
written and performed by Mary Chapin Carpenter 
from the soundtrack DEAD MAN WALKING (1995) 
 
CAPO 2 
  Am               Em               F                G 
       _   _   _        _   _   _        _   _   _        _   _   _ 
  |   | | | | | |  |   | | | | | |  |   | | | | | |  |   | | | | | | 
|---------------3|----------------|----------------|----------------| 
|-----1-----3-1--|-----1-----3---0|-------1---3---0|-3-----0---3---0| 
|-------4--------|-------4-----0--|-----0-------0--|-----0-------0--| 
|---------2------|---------2------|----------------|----------------| 
|-0--------------|----------------|---------3------|----------------| 
|----------------|-0--------------|-0-1------------|-3-------3------| 
                                     H 
 
 
You never had a dream like this 
Never felt the cold cold steel 
Slam you like a fist 
Break you down until you kneel 
Just like a beggar man 
Asking only for redemption 
All the things that can't 
Make a man believe in heaven 
 
Fix your eyes upon the bars 
Memorize their other side 
Like the tatoos on your arms 
The brag so loud and tough that night 
But now the truth comes out 
Fast as feel can do your talking 
It sets you free as one guard shouts 
Dead man walking 
 
When neither light nor darkness 
When neither night or day 
When neither kind nor heartless 
When neither lost or saved 
When neither still or moved 
When neither held or free 
Oh to be so human 
 
Dead man walking 
 
When neither light nor darkness 
When neither night or day 
When neither kind nor heartless 
When neither lost or saved 
When neither still or moved 
When neither held or free 
Oh to be so human 
Oh to be 
 
Somewhere in a dream like this where 
Light of love leads us home 
Broken worlds will not be fixed 
Engines take us as thy own 
We're just like beggars now 
On our knees we hear our names 
God forgives somehow 
We have yet to learn to save