VERSE 1: Damn the youth I had, for it was wasted on myself. My disillusioned passion was an impoverished sense of wealth. The painted rust I would become traded the sunrise for the sunset. Call it kitsch but, darlin’, this is all that I have left…
CHORUS: BABY, IF YOU FIND YOURSELF LOOKING BACK KNOW THERE AIN’T NOTHIN’ HERE TO KEEP YOU OFF TRACK. BABY, IF YOU FIND YOURSELF LOOKING BACK, I PRAY YOU CAN SEE THE GOOD BEYOND THE PATH I POISONED WITH THE VIRTUES THAT I LACK…
VERSE 2: In the end you start to feel the beginning at last; The sour sting to the throat as I drink down the past. And I shouldn’t waste your time with the musings of long gone, But I say this as a man who’s learned the burden of what he’s done wrong…
CHORUS: BABY, IF YOU FIND YOURSELF LOOKING BACK KNOW THERE AIN’T NOTHIN’ HERE TO KEEP YOU OFF TRACK. BABY, IF YOU FIND YOURSELF LOOKING BACK, I PRAY YOU CAN SEE THE GOOD BEYOND THE PATH I POISONED WITH THE VIRTUES THAT I LACK…
BRIDGE: Now you’re just a memory, a flash point in my mind. And I the ‘once burned’ lesson to you and your love in kind. I sent you away, but now like a dog I bay at the moon if only to put a whisper in your ear: The sands of time turn to diamonds as can a bitter-sweet memory from tears…
CHORUS: BABY, IF YOU FIND YOURSELF LOOKING BACK KNOW THERE AIN’T NOTHIN’ HERE TO KEEP YOU OFF TRACK. BABY, IF YOU FIND YOURSELF (3x) LOOKING BACK…