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