Lyrics Can't Look Back - Mat Kearney

Can't Look Back

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)