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Baby Step Back Lyrics
Now it looks to me like the same old place
In the sky it looks like rain
The same old town with the same old streets
The address has not change
You can find me there
With the door shut tight
And the one wish that remains
Baby step back baby step back
Either step up or step back
No you know I don't write no bad checks
I have no wish to repent
I've seen a few
But whatever I do
I don't cause no accidents
Whiskey and wine help me pass the time
I don't leave no evidence
Baby step back baby step back
Either step up or step back
Baby step back baby step back
Either step up or step back
Still I don't kneel down
I was born to fight
So you'd best leave me alone
Maybe I'll get much more than I need
Or much less than I should own
Last of all let me say it again
Either step up or step on
Baby step back baby step back
Either step up or step back
Baby step back baby step back
Either step up or step back
Baby walk back baby walk back
Either walk on or walk back
Baby step back ...
In the sky it looks like rain
The same old town with the same old streets
The address has not change
You can find me there
With the door shut tight
And the one wish that remains
Baby step back baby step back
Either step up or step back
I have no wish to repent
I've seen a few
But whatever I do
I don't cause no accidents
Whiskey and wine help me pass the time
I don't leave no evidence
Either step up or step back
Baby step back baby step back
Either step up or step back
I was born to fight
So you'd best leave me alone
Maybe I'll get much more than I need
Or much less than I should own
Last of all let me say it again
Either step up or step on
Either step up or step back
Baby step back baby step back
Either step up or step back
Either walk on or walk back
Baby step back ...
Song Info
Submitted by
butneveroutgunned On May 27, 2006
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Applying to situations in my own life, I see it as a retort to those people who want to tell you how and what to do, but don't want to do the work themselves. So you tell them "either step up or step back". Also the writer is saying however he does it, he doesn't abandon his moral code ("I don't write no bad checks, I have no wish to repent") which whoever he's addressing the song to, may want him to. It could be a business deal he's being advised on: "Maybe I'll get much more than I need or much less than I should own", but he's not going to back down.
someone who was cheated in some way, he's now holed up away from the world and is still feeling the sting of what happened to him... i'm not good at song analysis but i know it's a good song.
Definitely a lot of bellicosity about a woman, but it's not obvious that she cheated on him--just that he feels she mistreated him. The opening verse suggests that he's moved back where he was living before he moved in w/her.
Someone is threatening the writer and the writer considers there is more "bark" than "bite" so either do what you threaten you will do or (in polite terms) get lost