This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
[Incomprehensible]
So now I'm steppin' away
Like a window I can see right through ya
We all make our share of mistakes
All I ever wanted was the truth
So now I'm steppin' away
I can only give so many chances to ya
We all make our share of mistakes
All I ever wanted was the truth
I payed my debts, I payed our way up out the 409
I thought you crashed your whip and through the windshield, maybe died
You had me stressin' on you, worried 'bout you all the time
You don't realize it's hard to tell between the truth and lies
So now I know exactly how you get down
So now I'ma go 'cause I don't need this ish now
I'm on the phone, I'm talkin' to this chick now
She gonna pick me up at your house
They say the truth hurts but lies hurt more in the long run
Thinking that you're fooling somebody, baby, you are one
The moment you been gone but I gotta forget you
I'm just trying to feel something real
So now I'm steppin' away
Like a window I can see right through ya
We all make our share of mistakes
All I ever wanted was the truth
So now I'm steppin' away
I can only give so many chances to ya
We all make our share of mistakes
All I ever wanted was the truth
Remember when you told me we was gon' get by
We had it on lock, you looked me in the eye
6 months later I'm wondering why I'm still listening to lies
I hadn't the faintest idea but I sat right there
Gave you the benefit of the doubt, to hear what you saying
'Cause we all human beings but it seems you still schemin'
Just lyin' in life, livin' a lie that you believing
You was tweakin' but you had me convinced
And now I'm convinced you need counseling and maybe some medicine
I need to step, cut ties, I know how you get
You living a double life I can't be involved with
Never no more, what I look like fallin' for that again
Worried sick of about ya till I'm sick of being 'round yo ass
I just hope you get it together
'Cause right now this is the hardest thing
For me ever
So now I'm steppin' away
Like a window I can see right through ya
We all make our share of mistakes
All I ever wanted was the truth
So now I'm steppin' away
I can only give so many chances to ya
We all make our share of mistakes
All I ever wanted was the truth
Don't follow me this time
Singing the same little sad song
I'm shutting it down, so that don't happen again
Too many tries, gotta move on
And if we meet down the line
Singing the same little sad song
We gotta get by so I'm walking away till then
I'm saying good bye, gotta get by
So now I'm steppin' away
Like a window I can see right through ya
We all make our share of mistakes
All I ever wanted was the truth
So now I'm steppin' away
I can only give so many chances to ya
We all make our share of mistakes
All I ever wanted was the truth
(All I really wanted, that's all I need)
All I ever wanted was the truth
(That's all I ever wanted)
All I ever wanted was the truth
(That's all I ever wanted)
All I ever wanted was the truth
(All I ever wanted)
All I ever wanted was the truth
All I really wanted, that's all I really wanted
So now I'm steppin' away
Like a window I can see right through ya
We all make our share of mistakes
All I ever wanted was the truth
So now I'm steppin' away
I can only give so many chances to ya
We all make our share of mistakes
All I ever wanted was the truth
I payed my debts, I payed our way up out the 409
I thought you crashed your whip and through the windshield, maybe died
You had me stressin' on you, worried 'bout you all the time
You don't realize it's hard to tell between the truth and lies
So now I know exactly how you get down
So now I'ma go 'cause I don't need this ish now
I'm on the phone, I'm talkin' to this chick now
She gonna pick me up at your house
They say the truth hurts but lies hurt more in the long run
Thinking that you're fooling somebody, baby, you are one
The moment you been gone but I gotta forget you
I'm just trying to feel something real
So now I'm steppin' away
Like a window I can see right through ya
We all make our share of mistakes
All I ever wanted was the truth
So now I'm steppin' away
I can only give so many chances to ya
We all make our share of mistakes
All I ever wanted was the truth
Remember when you told me we was gon' get by
We had it on lock, you looked me in the eye
6 months later I'm wondering why I'm still listening to lies
I hadn't the faintest idea but I sat right there
Gave you the benefit of the doubt, to hear what you saying
'Cause we all human beings but it seems you still schemin'
Just lyin' in life, livin' a lie that you believing
You was tweakin' but you had me convinced
And now I'm convinced you need counseling and maybe some medicine
I need to step, cut ties, I know how you get
You living a double life I can't be involved with
Never no more, what I look like fallin' for that again
Worried sick of about ya till I'm sick of being 'round yo ass
I just hope you get it together
'Cause right now this is the hardest thing
For me ever
So now I'm steppin' away
Like a window I can see right through ya
We all make our share of mistakes
All I ever wanted was the truth
So now I'm steppin' away
I can only give so many chances to ya
We all make our share of mistakes
All I ever wanted was the truth
Don't follow me this time
Singing the same little sad song
I'm shutting it down, so that don't happen again
Too many tries, gotta move on
And if we meet down the line
Singing the same little sad song
We gotta get by so I'm walking away till then
I'm saying good bye, gotta get by
So now I'm steppin' away
Like a window I can see right through ya
We all make our share of mistakes
All I ever wanted was the truth
So now I'm steppin' away
I can only give so many chances to ya
We all make our share of mistakes
All I ever wanted was the truth
(All I really wanted, that's all I need)
All I ever wanted was the truth
(That's all I ever wanted)
All I ever wanted was the truth
(That's all I ever wanted)
All I ever wanted was the truth
(All I ever wanted)
All I ever wanted was the truth
All I really wanted, that's all I really wanted
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Steppin' Away Lyrics as written by Jr. Marty Garton
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