Credits
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Larry Gatlin
Composer
Lyrics
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)
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, you can't grow up healthy in a house of ...
One step forward
Two steps back
(Come on and try me)
One step forward
Two steps back
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
One step forward
Two steps back
(Come on and try me)
Writer(s): Russ Chapin Rankin
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