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)
 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)