Backwards

Can we unlock the doors that hold us back in our state of mind
Can we picture a place where moving forward isn't seen as tragic or a crime
Was there ever a chance that we could ever have saved our time
Every moment that feeds into a memory it seems without reason or rhyme

I don't want to be back there
Hoping i get to go back where
Things were much simpler than right here
All because of what i know now
No

I don't want to be backwards
Rolling through the times of my life
The farther we go
The past is a road we've left behind
The further we get away
Ooh i don't want to be paralyzed from wond'ring 'bout some alternate timeline
I don't want to look back

Can we find a way to see the present with the clarity of the past
Where we an learn from our mistakes and gain perspective while embracing
The fondness of a memory that brings a smile to your face
Without losing our grace in the present time and place

And when you want to go back there
Thinking 'bout how you were back then
Wond'rin' if you'd been a little different
How much different would your life have been
Come on

I don't want to be backwards
Rolling through the times of my life
The farther we go
The past is a road we've left behind
The further we get away
Ooh i don't want to be paralyzed from wond'ring 'bout some alternate timeline
I don't want to look back
I don't want to look back
I don't want to look back

So often we say, "those were the best days of my life"
While wasting away each moment we've saved on nostalgia in vain
Now i want to say, "these are the best days of my life"
Because without all the pain that's been carving away
I would not be the same man i am today

This is the place i can't escape the temptation
Of longing for days long past
When every single day it's in your face
Log on and retrace where we were twenty years ago
But nothing in between
The young man you knew back then is gone
And replaced by a completely different cluster of cells
And memory database and
You're different too it's okay
We've travelled our own ways so let's not pretend
Either one of us is really the same

I don't want to go back there
No

I don't want to be backwards
Rolling through the times of my life
The farther we go
The past is a road we've left behind
The further we get away
Ooh i don't want to be paralyzed from wond'ring 'bout some alternate timeline
I don't want to look back
I don't want to look back
I don't want to look back