Steps Lyrics - Good Riddance

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