Intro
Verse 1
There's A Corner Shop Still Open Past Ten,
Where We Used To Spend Our Change,
And The Houses All Look Smaller Now,
But Somehow Nothing's Changed.
There's Your Old Car Up By The Football Field,
Or Maybe One Just Like It Was,
And I Could Knock On Somebody's Door
And Talk About The Way It Was.
Pre-Chorus
But I've Been Down Those Streets Before,
And I Know Where Every Road Goes.
Funny How A Place Can Know Your Name
Even When You've Let It Go.
Chorus
I Don't Wanna Go Back To Once Was,
Don't Wanna Live Inside Those Years.
I'll Raise A Glass To All Of Us,
To Every Laugh And Every Tear.
We Were Young Underneath Those Streetlights,
Thought We'd Never Leave That Town.
Now I'm Somewhere I Don't Know Yet,
And I'm Finally Finding Out—
You Can Miss The Place Without Turning Around.
Verse 2
I Still Hear Your Voices Sometimes,
In The Back Of A Crowded Room.
Like The Summer Never Really Ended,
Like We'd Be Seventeen Soon.
We Made Promises On A Pavement,
With Our Names Scratched Into The Wall.
We Swore We'd All Be There Forever,
We Didn't Know Forever Changes Us All.
Pre-Chorus
And Maybe You're Still Chasing
The Life We Thought We'd Have.
Maybe That's Alright For You,
But I Don't Wanna Chase It Back.
Chorus
I Don't Wanna Go Back To Once Was,
Don't Wanna Live Inside Those Years.
I'll Raise A Glass To All Of Us,
To Every Laugh And Every Tear.
We Were Young Underneath Those Streetlights,
Thought We'd Never Leave That Town.
Now I'm Somewhere I Don't Know Yet,
And I'm Finally Finding Out—
You Can Miss The Place Without Turning Around.
Bridge
So Here's To The Ones I Left Behind,
And The Ones I've Yet To Meet.
Here's To Every Wrong Direction
That Still Brought Me To My Feet.
I Don't Need To Burn The Old Photographs,
I Don't Need To Hate That Town.
I Can Love Who I Was Back Then
Without Becoming Him Again.
Chorus
I Don't Wanna Go Back To Once Was,
There's Too Much Life I Haven't Seen.
The Old Friends, The Old Streets,
They're Still A Part Of Me.
But There's A New Road Past The Houses,
And The Morning's Coming Through.
I Don't Know Where It Takes Me,
And For Once I Don't Need To—
I Just Need To Keep Walking Somewhere New.
Outro
