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Every Little Step of the Way

from Wet Match by Sam Steffen

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The time now has come for facing the facts, our love has grown cold to the touch
We’re giving it everything that we have and our best still ain’t good enough
Perhaps I’m to blame for trying too hard to make this into something it wasn’t
For making the case that it matters to you when both of us know that it doesn’t
But who knows in spite of all that went wrong, it might still have turned out okay
If you hadn’t a snagged me and dragged me along every little step of the way

You don’t have to make like you’re really upset, you don’t have to tell me you’re sorry
You don’t gotta act like it’s the end of the world, it’s only the end of our story
I can’t really say that I’m glad it occurred, but I won’t say I’m sorry it’s over
The things about me that you still haven’t heard are probably best left undiscovered
But you never know somehow we might’ve pulled thru, might’ve even gotten married someday
If you hadn’t a lived like you’d nothing to lose, every little step of the way

I like to believe I can account for my part more than only part of the time
That what looks like a fault’s just a lapse in attention rather than a flaw in design
The vultures that swooped down to feed on my spleen were merely doing what they were made to
The leeches that drained me and sucked my bones clean shouldn’t have frightened or phased you
And as for the demons that hounded my heart, you know I could’ve kept em at bay
If you hadn’t a pushed me and pulled me apart, every little step of the way

You said you were tired of having this fight, the one that always ends in confusion
With one of us kissing the other goodnight and returning to the routine illusion
The picture in glass that hangs on your wall, the one in which everyone’s laughin
Seems to account for how I can recall events that never actually happened
But even with my head in a fog, I might’ve made it out of the gray
If you hadn’t a thrown a wrench in the cog every little step of the way

From now on I’ll do my best to be fair whenever telling people about us
I’ll say that our roads ran together awhile and then quite simply went on without us
You’ve taken your portion and dealt out your share of insults and harmful lines
if you’ve told me once I’m an old so-and-so, then you’ve told me a thousand times
And who knows, even in spite of the odds, we might’ve overcome the forces at play
If you hadn’t a toyed with and tempted the gods, every little step of the way

your promises frequently died in their birth or unraveled like thread on a spool
And your favors all cost me more than their worth, and your help was at best miniscule
Cause you never so little as tried to be kind, and you never so much as succeeded
in the object of snubbing and robbing me blind, a hint would’ve been all that I needed
But who knows, despite all the reasons to go, I might’ve found the courage to stay
If you hadn’t accused me of moving too slow every little step of the way

I have been called many things in my time, but a traveler’s what I mainly am
With nothing to tell of where I am bound, nor to say of where it was I began
When I come to a fork in the road, I pause; sometimes it’s just a second or two
Long enough to suppose that I am the sum of everything that I’ve been through
But the light’s never still where I stand alone, and I can afford no further delay
And I dream that I’m always arriving at home with every little step of the way

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from Wet Match, released October 13, 2019

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Sam Steffen Boise, Idaho

Sam Steffen is a Pennsylvania-bred, Boise-based singer-songwriter whose songs are the torch-wood for a new generation of folk music that has learned from the best stuff in the tradition and aims in spite of everything to keep the human spirit alive and kicking. A versatile musician and skilled finger-picker, Sam is at heart a story-teller, and a prolific one. ... more

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