You Can't Go Back-Patti Scialfa

[ti:You Can't Go Back] [ar:Patti Scialfa] [al:23rd Street Lullaby] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.84]You Can't Go Back - Patti Scialfa [00:12.78] [00:19.65]New York City 1988 [00:24.86] [00:28.05]Standing in the Chelsea rain [00:30.11] [00:32.24]With a small suitcase [00:34.05] [00:36.92]I used to walk invisible [00:38.82] [00:40.94]And the only time I felt recognized [00:44.01] [00:45.39]Was when I saw myself reflected [00:48.17] [00:50.23]In your loving eyes [00:52.17] [00:56.10]Now Im looking for a piece of my past [00:59.73] [01:00.54]On these streets that I once knew but [01:04.49] [01:06.24]Hey hey you can't go back [01:10.46] [01:13.15]Hey hey you can't go back [01:19.65] [01:31.96]Now I used to have the kind of luck [01:33.99] [01:35.74]That went from bad to worse [01:38.11] [01:40.80]A gypsy on the waterfront [01:43.48] [01:44.73]She told me I was cursed [01:46.99] [01:49.30]She said no ones young forever [01:52.17] [01:54.67]Well I just laughed [01:56.61] [01:58.62]I turned to leave around the corner [02:00.98] [02:03.36]And the years went past [02:05.49] [02:09.24]Now Im looking for a piece of myself [02:12.73] [02:13.66]On the same streets that I once knew but [02:17.48] [02:19.47]Hey hey you can't go back [02:23.54] [02:26.23]Hey hey you can't go back [02:32.85] [02:36.48]How can everything look so different [02:40.48] [02:41.05]How can everything look so the same [02:44.48] [02:45.23]Thru an open window I hear a record playing [02:49.25] [02:50.06]Who will stop the rain [02:54.04] [02:55.98]Of faces in the tide of rise and fall [03:02.93] [03:05.44]Do they wonder where we have gone [03:07.74] [03:09.92]Do they think of us at all [03:12.55] [03:14.99]Will they recognize us now [03:17.18] [03:18.80]In those perfect clothes and gowns [03:21.49] [03:23.30]Do they wonder what were doing here [03:26.05] [03:27.92]On this side of town [03:30.62] [03:32.49]Hey hey you can't go back [03:36.80] [03:39.75]Hey hey you can't go back [03:45.64] [03:48.45]Hey hey you can't go back [03:54.95] [03:57.70]Hey hey you can't go back [04:03.88] [04:06.75]Hey hey you can't go back