Can't Look Back - Mat Kearney

I was on a train out in New Mexico

Looking for a flame for my heart of coal

Sold my Nikon lens to get outta town

Don’t know how deep you’re in till you’re tryna get out

She was floating like a vision

Mississippi queen with a Tennessee smile

The smell of cheap coffee and Jamaican rum

We watched the desert fade

I said I’m not feeling right

She said, «Well you’ll be just fine

Go ahead and rest till the rise»

'Cause you can’t look back (can't look back)

You can’t look back (can't look back)

There ain’t no future in the past

And you can’t look back (can't look back)

With characters galore and

Pineapple pastor with the señoritas

All the disenfranchised kids in a room

We were baptized in the Pacific moon

Someone put a cactus up to my tongue

You can feel the love and try calling it love

A boy with a smile handed me his keys

Said, «Go ahead and try but you’ll never leave»

Someone was singing a hymn

And the moon, it started to spin

So I jump right in

Singing can’t look back (can't look back)

You can’t look back (can't look back)

There ain’t no future in the past

And you can’t look back (can't look back)

The years gone by like you never planned

I had missed the flight out of Birmingham

walked in the

There was no mistaking the way that she moved

This is my boy and this is my girl

Yeah, I’ll be till the end of the world

Somewhere tonight train

Know there’s wild hearts just running away

That sounded just like a dream

Was she singing to me?

It was so bittersweet

Because I can’t look back (can't look back)

You can’t look back (can't look back)

There ain’t no future in the past

And you can’t go back (can't look back)

You can’t look back (can't look back)

You can’t go back (can't look back)

There ain’t no future in the past

And you can’t look back (can't look back)