This is my version of step. I realize it is higher than the original but easier to play, and it's better for higher voices.
C Cmaj7 Am G
Every time I see you in the world you always step to my girl
Intro - C Cmaj7 Am G F C F G x2
Verse 1:
C Cmaj7
Back back way back I used to front like Angkor Wat
Am G
Mechanicsburg Anchorage and Dar es Salaam
F C F G
While home from New York was champagne and disco tapes from L A slash San
Francisco
C Cmaj7
But actually Oakland and not Alameda
Am G
Your girl was in Berkeley with her Communist reader
F C
Mine was entombed within boombox and walkman
F G
I was a hoarder but girl that was back then
Bridge :
he hums badoom with it
C Cmaj7 Am G
The Chorus is the same as the verse
C Cmaj7 Am
The gloves are off the wisdom teeth are out
G
What you on about
F C F G
I feel it in my bones I feel it in my bones
C Cmaj7 Am
I'm stronger now I'm ready for the house
G
Such a modest mouse
F C F G
I can't do it alone I can't do it alone
C Cmaj7 Am G
Every time I see you in the world you always step to my girl
F C F G
Verse 2:
C Cmaj7
Ancestors told me that their girl was better
Am G
She's richer than Croesus she's tougher than leather
F C
I just ignored all the details of a past life
F G
Stale conversation deserves but a bread knife
C Cmaj7
And punks who would laugh when they saw us together
Am G
Well they didn't know how to dress for the weather
F C
I can still see them there huddled on Astor
F G
Snow falling slow to the sound of the master
Chorus
Bridge
(just play the same chord pattern)
Verse 3:
C Cmaj7
Wisdom's a gift but you'd trade it for youth
Am G
Age is an honor - it's still not the truth
F C
We saw the stars when they hid from the world
F G
You cursed the sun when it stepped to your girl
C Cmaj7
Maybe she's gone and I can't resurrect her
Am G
The truth is she doesn't need me to protect her
F C
We don't know the true death the way of all flesh
F G
Everyone's dying but girl - you're not old yet
Chorus