It's like I spent my whole life picking up baggage Some of it's on them, some is on me and Some of it just happened Because I let all of my ghosts hang around I'm a little too scared to be too happy now But with all that I have I know That I should be happy now I find myself stuck inside all my heartbreak memories I find myself wishing I could rewrite all my history But I'm learning every step lead to where I'm at I just gotta get past the past Through the rain, over things that I can't change To a place where I don't break when I look back Just gotta get past the past I just gotta get past the past People I depended on that didn't ever show up Old loves that did me wrong but I just had to let go of Well, right now it's hard to forget my mistakes Wish I could go back there and just hit erase And maybe if I give it time they won't haunt me the same I find myself stuck inside all my heartbreak memories I find myself wishing I could rewrite all my history But I'm learning every step lead to where I'm at I just gotta get past the past Through the rain, over things that I can't change To a place where I don't break when I look back Just gotta get past the past I just gotta get past the past You give me love I didn't earn Love I'm learning that I'm worth As it turns out, love just don't care who we were I find myself stuck inside all my heartbreak memories I find myself wishing I could rewrite all my history But I'm learning every step lead to where I'm at I just gotta get past the past Through the rain, over things that I can't change To a place where I don't break when I look back I just gotta get past the past I just gotta get past the past

More than I had in mind More than I wish I knew And now it's near on me Some rush of red fear And my worst old times look fine from here I know you walked this route And you might help me out You said what's done is done I can't turn the hand 'round But still it looks a long way down Oh man, was it that much better then? We were left alone, we were proud of our pain And so I want to walk out in the night See the wide young river flood rain We're not on one straight line I made my own way through And when the track goes cold I'll know that it's true That rebirth won't work like it used to And oh man, was it that much better then? We were left alone, we were proud of our pain And so I want to walk out in the night See the wide young river flood rain And I can't let go of a lot I've left I'm holding nothing but what I kept And it all got dimmer each passing step And I need you with me, and you read the writ Are you now insisting? Is it not worth it? But I've got no option I inherited this and I overcome That's that, we're a long way from the past I'll be better off in a year or in two

Here we are, the final credits, Youth will have its flings and that's why Our story just never existed And that night belongs to the past...

For sale by owner sign On highway fifty-nine A signal of the times A turnin' of the page There used to be nothin' here But then nothin' disappeared The pond, the barn, the farm, the fields Have long since been replaced Asphalt parking where that ten pew, Pentecostal stood Fast food, four lanes and a subdivided neighborhood The walls of the world are closin' in The spreadin' city spreads us thin We can't seem to make our ends, meet the black Never would've thought it wouldn't last The way of life, time moved past What I wouldn't give to have, the back 40 back Maybe I'm a sucker for Knowing who lives next door A view from my back porch A pinch of peace and quiet I can't get back the used to be's So I hang on to the memories Of when I could still look up And see the stars not streetlights shinin' The walls of the world are closin' in The spreadin' city spreads us thin We can't seem to make our ends, meet the black Never woulda thought it wouldn't last The way of life, time moved past What I wouldn't give to have, the back 40 back Now I get that progress has it's place And no regard for what it takes Wish it would slow it's pace and cut us all some slack 'Cause it's all changing way too fast A way of life that time moved past What I wouldn't give to have the back forty back