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Good Riddance

Steps

Release date: 4th June 1996

From A Comprehensive Guide to Moderne Rebellion
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"Steps" is a track by Good Riddance, from the album A Comprehensive Guide to Moderne Rebellion, released 4th June 1996. Full lyrics are available below.

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Good Riddance

Good Riddance

Lyrics

Steps

When I beat my head against the wall of convention

The blood I taste is everyone's

I fought a battle thought unpopular

For stakes nobody seems to see

Nobody sees but me

One step forward

Two steps back

Come on and try me

My pain is the pain of children

My heart is burning with their shame

When mother cries all day

I'll wipe those tears away

You can't grow up healthy in a house of

For every father holding back the angry fire until five

When it festers on the drive

His boss has shamed him to tears

He should "take it like a man" but he never had a man to tell him

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Track details

From A Comprehensive Guide to Moderne Rebellion

1996
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A Comprehensive Guide to Moderne Rebellion
A Comprehensive Guide to Moderne Rebellion
Good Riddance
Release year
1996
  1. —Steps
  2. —Last Believer
  3. —This Is the Light
  4. —Token Idiot
  5. —Lampshade
  6. —Up & Away
  7. —Sometimes
  8. —Bittersweet
  9. —Static
  10. —Think of Me
  11. —Trophy
  12. —West End Memorial
  13. —Weight of the World
  14. —The Sky Is Falling
  15. —Favorite Son
  16. —A Credit to His Gender
  17. —Come Dancing

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