I was on a train out of New Mexico
Looking for a flame for my heart of coal
Saw my nightgown lens to get out of town
Don't know how deep you're in till you're trying to get out
She was floating like a vision down through the aisle
Mississippi Queen with a Tennessee smile
The smell of cheap coffee and Jamaican rum
We watched the desert fade and the Santa face on
I said I'm not feeling right She said well you'll be just fine
Go ahead and rest your eyes Cause you can't look back
You can't look back
There ain't no future in the past
And you can't look back
With characters galore in the Sayulita sun
Pineapple pastora with the señoritas
All the disenfranchised kids in the room
We were baptized in the Pacific moon
Someone put a cactus up to my tongue
You can feel alive and try calling it love
The boy with the smile handed me his keys
Said go ahead and try but you'll never leave
Someone was singing a hymn and the room started
to spin So I jumped right in singing
Cause you can't look back
You can't look back
There ain't no future in the past And you can't look back
The
years go by like you never planned I
had missed a flight out of Birmingham
The way a yellow apron walked in the room
There was no mistake in the way that she moved
This is my boy and this is my girl And
I'll be employed till the end of the world
Somewhere tonight on a westbound train You
know there's wild hearts just running away
And it sounded just like a dream while she's still singing to me
It was so bittersweet
Because you can't look back
You can't look back
There ain't no future in the past And you can't go back
You can't look back
You can't go back
There ain't no future in the past And you can't look back