Am7              Dsus4
I was on a train out of New Mexico
D             G                     C
Looking for a flame for my heart of coal
              Am7                  Dsus4
Sold my Nikon lenses to get out of town
      D                    G                             C
Don’t know how deep you’re in until you’re trying to get out
                        Am7                    Dsus4
She was floating like a vision down through the isle
D           G                      C
Mississippi queen with a Tennessee smile
                   Am7                  Dsus4
The smell of cheap coffee and Jamaician rum
   D                  G                    C
We watched the desert fade in the Sante Fe sun


[Pre-Chorus]
Am7
  I said I’m not feeling right
D
 She said boy you’ll be just fine
G                       C
 Go ahead and rest your eyes


[Chorus]
                     Am7              Dsus4
Cause you can’t look back (can’t look back)
    D          G                C
You can’t look back (can’t look back)
               Am7           Dsus4
There ain’t no future in the past
        D          G                C
And you can’t look back (can’t look back)


[Verse 2]
                  Am7                  Dsus4
With characters galore in the Sayulita sun
D            G                   C
Pineapple pastor with the senoritas
             Am7                    Dsus4
All the disenfranchised kids in the room
D          G                    C
We were baptized in the Pacific moon
              Am7             Dsus4
Someone put a cactus up to my tongue
D             G                       C
You can feel alive and try calling it love
             Am7                 Dsus4
A Boy with a smile handed me his keys
      D            G                     C
Said ‘go ahead and try’ but you’ll never leave


[Pre-Chorus]
Am7
   Someone was singing a hymn
D
 And the moon just started to spin
G                C
 So I jump right in singing


[Chorus]
               Am7              Dsus4
You can’t look back (can’t look back)
    D          G                C
You can’t look back (can’t look back)
               Am7           Dsus4
There ain’t no future in the past
        D          G                C
And you can’t look back (can’t look back)


[Interlude]
F  Fmaj7  G  G   x2
Am7    Dsus4  D  G    C   x2


[Verse 3]
             Am7               Dsus4
The years go by like you never planned
D              G                   C
I had missed a flight out of Birmingham
                   Am7                 Dsus4
The way her yellow apron walked in the room
D               G                        C
There was no mistake in the way that she moved
            Am7                Dsus4
‘This is my boy and this is my girl
    D            G                          C
Now I’ll be in employed till the end of the world’
            Am7                    Dsus4
Somewhere tonight on the westbound train
  D                 G                    C
I know there's wild hearts just running away



[Pre-Chorus]
Am7
   It sounded just like a dream
D
 One that she’s still singing to me
G                C
 It was so bittersweet


[Chorus]
                       Am7              Dsus4
Because you can’t look back (can’t look back)
    D          G                C
You can’t look back (can’t look back)
               Am7           Dsus4
There ain’t no future in the past
        D        G                C
And you can’t go back (can’t look back)

               Am7              Dsus4
You can’t look back (can’t look back)
    D        G                C
You can’t go back (can’t look back)
               Am7           Dsus4
There ain’t no future in the past
        D          G                C
And you can’t look back (can’t look back)