Christine Lavin - Never Go Back lyrics

I had another one of those dreams About being back in my old hometown The house was still standing Just like I remember Except now the roses bloom All year round I was playing with the Callahan twins Silly silly schoolgirl fun We didn't know about cigarettes We didn't know about alcohol We didn't know one of us would die young We can never go back So why do I try And why does the past loom closer Every time I close my eyes We can never return We should keep moving on I wish these memories would Burn down to ashes Blow away and be gone. He gave me one of those looks last night I had no choice but to walk away I could not talk to him I could not deal with him I couldn't hear what he had to say He flatly refuses to ever forget So he tries to remind me whenever he can He doesn't know all that I've been through He doesn't know that it hurt me to He doesn't know what was could never be again He can never go back So why does he try And why does the past loom closer By chance he catches my eye He can never return He should keep moving on I wish these memories would Burn down to ashes Blow away and be gone. Now there's a Callahan girl But no Callahan twins Except when I dream of life as it had been Like he probably dreams of me And how it used to be Back when I was in love with him I try to cut the ropes Cut the strings and threads Cut the ties that choke That link the living with the dead And still I can never hide When day and night collide I find myself wide awake in bed. We can never go back So why do we try And why does the past loom closer Every night when I close my eyes We can never return We should keep moving on I wish these memories would Burn down to ashes Blow away and be gone.