Richard Franklin Morse: Music & Lyrics

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Written to cheer myself up during a difficult time. It was my mantra for a few weeks, kept me going somehow. I hope it will serve the same purpose for someone who can use encouragement, and who among us can’t use encouragement from time to time?

One Step Closer

Sometimes when life has got the best of me
Seems I’m never where I meant to be
When the end of my rainbow is a river run dry
And the top of that mountain seems impossibly high

I say I’m
One Step Closer to my destiny, every day I’m
One Step Closer to where I’m meant to be, don’t you know I’m
One Step Closer, and I’ll never stop
I’m One Step Closer to the mountaintop

And I believe it with all my power
And I repeat it every waking hour
In my moments of weakness it carries me through
Until that mountaintop comes into view

I say I’m
One Step Closer to my destiny, every day I’m
One Step Closer to where I’m meant to be, don’t you know I’m
One Step Closer, and I’ll never stop
I’m One Step Closer to the mountaintop

One fine day I’m gonna stand on that mountain
Lookin’ at the valley below
And I’ll remember what I told myself
You know it doesn’t seem so long ago
Oh no

I said I’m
One Step Closer as I live and breathe, every day I’m
One Step Closer to my destiny, don’t you know I’m
One Step Closer, and I’ll never stop
I’m One Step Closer to the mountaintop

You know I’m
One Step Closer to my destiny, every day I’m
One Step Closer to where I’m meant to be, don’t you know I’m
One Step Closer, and I’ll never stop
I’m One Step Closer to the mountaintop