Woke up this morning my house was cold   Checked the furnace she wasn't burnin'   Went out and hopped in my old Ford   Hit the engine but A she ain't turnin'   We've given each other some hard lessons lately   But we ain't learnin'   We're the, same sad story that's a fact   One step up and two steps back      Bird on a wire outside my motel room   But he ain't singin'   Girl in white ,outside a church in June   But the church bells they ain't ringing   I'm sittin' here in this bar tonight   But all I'm thinkin' is   I'm the same old story same old act   One step up and two steps back      It's the same thing night on night   Who's wrong baby who's right   Another fight and I slam the door on   Another battle in our dirty little war   When I look at myself I don't see   The man I want to be   Somewhere along the line I slipped off track   I'm caught movin' one step up and two steps back.      There's a girl across the bar,I   get the message she's sendin'   Mmm she ain't lookin' to married   me, well honey I'm pretending   Last night I dreamed I held you in my arms   The music was never-ending   We danced as the evening sky, faded to black   One step up and two steps back