Don’t Look Back
From DFTBA
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"Don't Look Back" is the eleventh track on the debut album Parrot Stories by Alex Day.
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Notes
This song was written on January 12th, 2009, and according to Alex's online diary was inspired by the style of Julia Nunes. It was the result of a self-enforced challenge to write a slow song on ukulele, since it's such a "peppy" instrument.
The lyrics were inspired by a night spent "walking at night in the cold with the full moon above us" with Lex Croucher and Charlie McDonnell in Charlie's home town of Bath. Alex says it is his most honest song, because it is about himself (unlike his other songs, which are about girls). He has also described it as a "warning to any potential girlfriends".
A ukulele-only acoustic demo of the song was released on the DFTBA Records, Volume One compilation album on June 1, 2009.
Music videos
- Live version recorded at the UK Painfully Mainstream launch party at The George pub in London, also featuring Eddplant.
Lyrics
This won't be the first time that I'll give it all I've got
I promise I don't mean for everything to turn out wrong
I'm not a complex person, wind me up and watch me go
You'll always be second to my love for the unknown
It's late and your nose is turning red from the cold
Our feet are walking rhythmically and crumpling the snow
And I have got myself a question that I would like to ask
When it gets to midnight, will you take my freezing hands and dance?
And it's too late for me, but you can still be free if you leave now
And don't look back, my love
I'm a sucker for stability, which might come as a surprise
But I can't help but love the way you smile to one side
We don't need the music to remind us what we've lost
I can barely move my fingers and I'm slipping on the frost
Now the dark is all around us but for the full moon in the sky
The world is silent to me, we're the only ones alive
And I can see my breath in front of me, dancing in the air with yours
We both know what we want, but we can't cos we're so unsure
And it's too late for me, but you can still be free if you leave now
And don't look back, my love
Chords
Verse: A, Amaj7, F#, Fmin
“When it gets to midnight/we both know what we want”: D, Dm
Chorus: D, Dm, E7, D, Dm
Appears On
- (2009) Parrot Stories
- (2009) DFTBA Records, Volume One (demo)
