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 in Jamaica, Rome
We watched the desert fade into Santa Fe, son
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,
son Pineapple pistachio 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
A boy with a smile handed me his keys Said,
go ahead and try but you'll never leave
Someone was singing a hymn when the room
started to spin So I jumped right in,
singing
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 gone by like you never planned
I had missed a flight out of Birmingham Waved 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
I'll be employed till the end of the world
Somewhere tonight on a bus-bound train
You know there's wild hearts just running away
And that sounded just like a dream,
when 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 look back
You can't look back
You can't look back
You can't go back
You can't look back There ain't no future in the past