Don’t Look Back - David Wilcox

By now there’s no mistaking

Why I’ll not get paroled

The jail’s of my own making

From grudges I still hold

Built up from years of anger

Turning to stone

I do my time inside, alone

No break along these fences

I stare out past that gate

Behind my best defenses

I plan my great escape

The key would be forgiveness

Let down my guard

Cold steel has turned my heart so hard

Don’t look back on the sad decisions

That kept me who I used to be

I felt the light but had no vision

‘Till you came and set me free

Don’t look back at the lock-down ending

Strike that set like a sleight of hand

Nothing there that’s worth defending

Turn those walls to wind and sand

Regret takes every minute.

No time that it won’t steal

And when my mind stays in it, that prison feels so real

My mirrors all get shattered.

Small price to pay

It’s just the past that blocks my way

Don’t look back at the smug and clever

The fortress walls that gave me pride

Set my heart apart forever

And made my anger justified

Don’t look back to the world of hurtin'

That need to feel so right was wrong

I made a trade to be so certain

And paid the price for way too long

Don’t look back till we’re out in the open

Those dark days can’t hold me now

When I almost gave up hoping

You brought me through the light somehow

Don’t look back at the cage that bound me

All those times you told me so

The righteous rage I built around me

I finally have to let it go It’s only the past, I know

Only the past held me down: only the past held me.

So DON’T LOOK BACK