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Can't Look Back by Mat Kearney

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Tuning: Standard (Chord diagramE MajorE Chord diagramA augmentedA Chord diagramD MajorD Chord diagramG+G Chord diagramBB Chord diagramE MajorE)

Intro:
Chord diagramA minorAm    Chord diagramDsus2Dsus2    Chord diagramG+G    Chord diagramC majorC (2x)

Verse 1:
     Chord diagramA minorAm         Chord diagramDsus2Dsus2
I was on a train out in New Mexico
       Chord diagramG+G            Chord diagramC majorC
Looking for a flame for my heart of coal
        Chord diagramA minorAm        Chord diagramDsus2Dsus2
Sold my Nikon lens to get outta town
              Chord diagramG+G             Chord diagramC majorC
Don't know how deep you're in till you're trying get out
            Chord diagramA minorAm         Chord diagramDsus2Dsus2
She was floating like a vision out to the eye
        Chord diagramG+G          Chord diagramC majorC
Mississippi queen with a Tennessee smile
          Chord diagramA minorAm         Chord diagramDsus2Dsus2
The smell of cheap coffee and Jamaican rum
           Chord diagramG+G            Chord diagramC majorC
We watched the desert fade in the set of the sun

Pre-Chorus:
Chord diagramA minorAm
I said I'm not feeling right
Chord diagramDsus2Dsus2
She said, "Well you'll be just fine
Chord diagramG+G              Chord diagramC majorC
Go ahead and rest till the rise

Chorus:
            Chord diagramA minorAm      Chord diagramDsus2Dsus2
'Cause you can't look back (can't look back)
        Chord diagramG+G       Chord diagramC majorC
You can't look back (can't look back)
         Chord diagramA minorAm    Chord diagramDsus2Dsus2
There ain't no future in the past
          Chord diagramG+G        Chord diagramC majorC
And you can't look back (can't look back)

Verse 2:
         Chord diagramA minorAm             Chord diagramDsus2Dsus2
With characters galore and too shy to see the sun
      Chord diagramG+G           Chord diagramC majorC
Pineapple pastor with the señoritas
       Chord diagramA minorAm          Chord diagramDsus2Dsus2
All the disenfranchised kids in a room
    Chord diagramG+G             Chord diagramC majorC
We were baptized in the Pacific moon
       Chord diagramA minorAm        Chord diagramDsus2Dsus2
Someone put a cactus up to my tongue
         Chord diagramG+G         Chord diagramC majorC
You can feel the love and try calling it love
       Chord diagramA minorAm        Chord diagramDsus2Dsus2
Chord diagramA augmentedA boy with a smile handed me his keys
        Chord diagramG+G          Chord diagramC majorC
Said, "Go ahead and try but you'll never leave"

Pre-Chorus:
Chord diagramA minorAm
Someone was singing a hymn
Chord diagramDsus2Dsus2
And the moon, it started to spin
Chord diagramG+G        Chord diagramC majorC
So I jump right in

Chorus:
          Chord diagramA minorAm        Chord diagramDsus2Dsus2
Singing can't look back (can't look back)
        Chord diagramG+G        Chord diagramC majorC
You can't look back (can't look back)
          Chord diagramA minorAm   Chord diagramDsus2Dsus2
There ain't no future in the past
          Chord diagramG+G        Chord diagramC majorC
And you can't look back (can't look back)

Verse 3:
        Chord diagramA minorAm         Chord diagramDsus2Dsus2
The years gone by like you never planned
       Chord diagramG+G         Chord diagramC majorC
I had missed the flight out of Birmingham
         Chord diagramA minorAm          Chord diagramDsus2Dsus2
The way her yellow apron walked in the room
       Chord diagramG+G            Chord diagramC majorC
There was no mistake in the way that she moved
      Chord diagramA minorAm         Chord diagramDsus2Dsus2
This is my boy and this is my girl
        Chord diagramG+G                Chord diagramC majorC
Yeah, I'll be in thoughts till the end of the world
     Chord diagramA minorAm            Chord diagramDsus2Dsus2
Somewhere tonight on the westbound train
        Chord diagramG+G           Chord diagramC majorC
Know there's wild hearts just running away

Pre-Chorus:
Chord diagramA minorAm
That sounded just like a dream
Chord diagramDsus2Dsus2
Was she singing to me
Chord diagramG+G          Chord diagramC majorC
It was so bittersweet

Chorus:
           Chord diagramA minorAm       Chord diagramDsus2Dsus2
Because I can't look back (can't look back)
         Chord diagramG+G       Chord diagramC majorC
You can't look back (can't look back)
         Chord diagramA minorAm     Chord diagramDsus2Dsus2
There ain't no future in the past
          Chord diagramG+G       Chord diagramC majorC
And you can't go back (can't look back)
         Chord diagramA minorAm      Chord diagramDsus2Dsus2
You can't look back (can't look back)
        Chord diagramG+G        Chord diagramC majorC
You can't look back (can't look back)
         Chord diagramA minorAm     Chord diagramDsus2Dsus2
There ain't no future in the past
          Chord diagramG+G        Chord diagramC majorC
And you can't go back (can't look back)

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