Credits John Parham - electric guitar; Ben Phillips - rhythm guitar, vocals

Story Behind the Song
The song compares growing up to walking along a sidewalk and trying not to step on the lines. A step along the sidewalk is a step toward maturity and self-identity; the lines represent the expectations of other. As the speaker gets older, his legs get longer so he takes fewer steps in each square. Eventually he realizes that it would be a lot easier to walk the sidewalk if he just ignored the lines.

Lyrics
One step, two steps in a sidewalk square
I measure them out as I walk everywhere
Don't step on a crack, don't wander away
Don't talk 'till the teacher has nothing left to say
One step, two steps in a sidewalk square
A demon of belittlement had followed me there
I cried out, so desperate for someone to care
But people will rape them if you lay your feelings bare

don't step- don't speak-

One step alone in each sidewalk section
I learn painful lessons of love and rejection

I hid my head when all the children said I'd failed their little tests
I held a guilt trip for the moments I thought I knew what was best
for me
I thought I'd never be as good as them in their own eyes
And I was right. Absolutely right.

Walking alone, don't know where my steps fall in the sections
I'm pissed off and impervious to all forms of correction
The people I depend on for an air of acceptance
Have left me instead with the stench of their own arrogance

My steps will no longer fit in the lines
Self-doubt and self-hatred are all left behind
Rudely ignoring now all the cracks in my way
I'm glad I don't give a fuck what anybody else has to say

My steps will no longer fit in the lines