You always been a little slow

hung up on yourself most times

you seem to watch the world going by through

someone else's eyes

your own reflection always seems to blind you

but one day you awoke to find

all the people that tried to love you were gone

you were the only one left behind



You were just one step behind

you were just one step

behind

living one step behind

and you missed it...



You didn't put no kids through college

or lavish love upon a wife

so you sit alone with all your pretty things

waiting for the phone to ring

you saved a whole lot of money

you spent a whole lot of time

waiting for your greater future to get here

but you couldn't catch it



You were just one step behind....

And you missed it



Now you wake up on the sidewalk

with your car keys in your hand

the sunrise burning holes in your eyes

but you missed it

you chased away your princess

waiting for a queen

now your princess is gone

with another man

and you miss her

lord how you miss her

living just one step behind



You wake up and it's over

you done spent your life alone

you don't remember that it even happened

don't realize it's gone

you were just one step behind