Released: April 23, 2002
Songwriter: Bruce Springsteen
Producer: Norro Wilson Buddy Cannon Kenny Chesney
[Verse 1]
Woke up this morning
The house was cold
Checked the furnace she wasn't burning
Went out and hopped in my old Ford
Hit the engine but she is not a turning
Given each other some hard lessons lately
But we aren't learning
Same sad story thats a fact
Once step up and two steps back
[Verse 2]
Bird on a wire outside my motel room but he is not singing
Girl in white outside a church in June
But the church bells they are not ringing
Sitting here in this bar tonight
And all I'm thinkinthinkin' is
How the same old story same old act
One step up and two steps back
[Verse 3]
It's the same thing night all night
Who's wrong and baby who's right
Another fight and I slam the door on
Another battle in our dirty little war
When I look at myself I don't see the man I wanted to be
Somewhere along the line I slipped off track
Living one step up and two steps back
[Verse 4]
There's a girl across the bar
I get the message she's sending
Mmm she is not looking too married
We well honey I pretended
Last night I dreamed I held you in my arms
The music was never ending
We danced as the evening sky faded to black
Moving one step up and two steps up
(One step up and two steps back)
One step up and two steps back
(One step up and two steps back)
One step up and two steps back
(One step up and two steps back)
One step up and two steps back
Ohhh baby we're Moving
[Outro]
One step up and two steps back
One step up and two steps back
One step up and two steps back
Mmm one step up and two steps back
(One step up and two steps back)
(One step up and two steps back)
Woke up this morning
The house was cold
Checked the furnace she wasn't burning
Went out and hopped in my old Ford
Hit the engine but she is not a turning
Given each other some hard lessons lately
But we aren't learning
Same sad story thats a fact
Once step up and two steps back
[Verse 2]
Bird on a wire outside my motel room but he is not singing
Girl in white outside a church in June
But the church bells they are not ringing
Sitting here in this bar tonight
And all I'm thinkinthinkin' is
How the same old story same old act
One step up and two steps back
[Verse 3]
It's the same thing night all night
Who's wrong and baby who's right
Another fight and I slam the door on
Another battle in our dirty little war
When I look at myself I don't see the man I wanted to be
Somewhere along the line I slipped off track
Living one step up and two steps back
[Verse 4]
There's a girl across the bar
I get the message she's sending
Mmm she is not looking too married
We well honey I pretended
Last night I dreamed I held you in my arms
The music was never ending
We danced as the evening sky faded to black
Moving one step up and two steps up
(One step up and two steps back)
One step up and two steps back
(One step up and two steps back)
One step up and two steps back
(One step up and two steps back)
One step up and two steps back
Ohhh baby we're Moving
[Outro]
One step up and two steps back
One step up and two steps back
One step up and two steps back
Mmm one step up and two steps back
(One step up and two steps back)
(One step up and two steps back)
more tracks from the album
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- The Boys of Fall
- Boston
- Somewhere With You
- Hemingway’s Whiskey
- When I See This Bar
- Happy On The Hey Now (A Song For Kristi)
- Out Last Night
- American Kids
- Flora-Bama
- Save It For A Rainy Day
- Noise
- Big Star (Live)
- Dust on the Bottle
- You and Tequila
- Coastal
- Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven
- Down the Road
- Pirate Flag
- No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems
- There Goes My Life
- I Go Back
- Anything But Mine
- Old Blue Chair
- Young
- One Step Up
- Guitars and Tiki Bars
- Summertime
- I’m Alive
- The Joker / Three Little Birds
From the albums
- No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems (2002)
- Live In No Shoes Nation (2017)
Kenny Chesney popular songs
- Get Along
- Better Boat
- American Kids
- Anything But Mine
- Wild Child
- Setting the World on Fire
- When the Sun Goes Down
- Come Over
- All the Pretty Girls
- The Good Stuff
- Tip of My Tongue
- You and Tequila
- Don’t Blink
- Somewhere With You
- I Go Back
- There Goes My Life
- The Boys of Fall
- She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy
- Summertime
- Pirate Flag
- Here and Now
- Save It For A Rainy Day
- Ends of the Earth
- Knowing You