You Can't Go Back

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Patti Scialfa. Patti Scialfa, 2004.

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Credits

• 23rd Street Lullaby (Patti Scialfa, 2004)
  • Patti Scialfa: vocals, keyboards, harmonium, harpsichord, organ
  • Tiffeny Andrews: backing vocals
  • Bobby Bandiera: electric guitar, acoustic guitar
  • Clifford Carter: keyboards, piano, electric piano, organ, mellotron
  • Steve Jordan: drums, percussion, backing vocals, bass, drum loops
  • Antoinette Moore: backing vocals
  • Michelle Moore: backing vocals
  • Marc Ribot: acoustic guitar, electric guitar, dobro, banjo
  • Bruce Springsteen: electric guitar, electronic keyboards
  • Soozie Tyrell: violin, backing vocals
  • Willie Weeks: bass

Performances

Performed live 0 times (not including snippet performances).

Released on Album

Released on 23rd Street Lullaby (Patti Scialfa, 2004).

On The Tracks

YOU CAN'T GO BACK

4:43

GUEST: LULLABY

Note: Springsteen joins Patti Scialfa in the studio in January 2004 to contribute electric guitar and keyboard to three songs for her album 23rd Street Lullaby, released in June of that year.

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Lyrics

You Can't Go Back

New York City, 1988
Standing in the Chelsea rain with a small suitcase
I used to walk invisible and the only time I felt recognized
Is when I saw myself reflected in your loving eyes

Now I'm looking for a piece of my past
On these streets that I once knew but
Hey hey, oh you can't go back
Hey hey hey yeah, oh you can't go back

I used to have the kind of luck that went from bad to worse
A gypsy on the waterfront she told me I was cursed
She said no one's young forever, I just laughed
I turned to leave around the corner and the years went past

Now I'm looking for a piece of myself
On the same streets that I once knew but
Hey hey, oh you can't go back
Hey hey hey yeah, oh you can't go back

How can everything look so different, how can everything look so the same
Through an open window I hear a record playing "Who Will Stop The Rain"
Now there's a river of faces in the tide of rise and fall
Do they wonder where we've gone, do they think of us at all
Will they recognize us now in these perfect clothes and gowns
Do they wonder what we're doing here on this side of town

Hey hey, oh you can't go back
Hey hey hey yeah, oh you can't go back
Hey hey, oh you can't go back
Hey hey hey yeah, oh you can't go back
Hey hey, oh you can't go back
Hey hey, you can't go back
Hey hey

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