Three Steps, Four Steps (back to the start)
Clawing and fighting and breaking and scrambling for purchase
On the rocks that cut your hands and your soul
Climbing and kicking and screaming for the top of that cliff,
Reaching it and falling on stones
And it's one step forward and it's two steps back and it's
Three steps, four steps forward and go
Back to start.
There’s get outta jail free cards posted on the heads of some
But for some of us hanging a mile above
And the world is telling us to jump and reach for them
To grab ‘em and forget about the ones that we love
And to leave them behind
And to tell them goodbye
And copy, paste, superglue, forgo glitter and stars
And to grayscale our lives
And to ignore all the strife
And in a copycat cash grab forget who we are
And when you stand up
Beat down
Tears fall
Turn around
Try as you might to recover
Lost ground
Wanting peace not war
But fighting at the sound
Of the cries of our people
As they’re felled and they’re downed
Pulling back and taking a breath
Until you’re tugged back in and you’ve got nothing left
So you put up your fists
Hide the scars on your wrists
Duck blows
On your toes
Ready for the hits
That keep coming
And you keep running
From the words and deeds
And it’s becoming
To heavy
To hard
And every door that is barred
Is a blow to the heart
So you sit down in the shards
Of hopes and dreams
Scattered as far as the eye can see
And you pass on the flag
And whisper
Remember me