"Not Going Back" lyrics

Looking back on what they
Say are the better days
Reminiscing sitting
On a paint stain porch
While sun scorched our skin
Just some young dumb kids
Rolling green-stained cigarettes
Underneath leaves turning red
A mellow autumn sky
The first time I said goodbye

But now the nights
Are warmer and
The days are gold
Life gets harder
But all I know
Is that I wouldn't
Go back
Past the point of no return
No I wouldn't go back
'Cause then I'll
Never get to learn
How to be me
And how to be free
I'm not going back

Around the corner
The hands of those
Are left behind
They push me forward
But hold me down
From time to time
Or am I wrong
For wanting more
Than what my hometown
Had in store

Now the nights
Are warmer and
The days are gold
Life gets harder
But all I know
Is that I wouldn't
Go back
Past the point of no return
No I wouldn't go back
'Cause then I'll
Never get to learn
How to be me
And how to be free
I'm not going back
(No-uo-uo)
I'm not going back
(No-uo-uo-oh-oh)

Now the nights are warmer
And the days are gold
As the flight's got father
Away from home