Lyrics to
Don’t Look Back

This version of Don’T Look Back was released by Boston in 1978.

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Don’t look back
A new day is breakin’
It’s been too long since I felt this way
I don’t mind where I get taken
The road is callin’
Today is the day

I can see
It took so long to realize
I’m much too strong
Not to comprimise
Now I see what I am is holding me down
I’ll turn it around

I finally see the dawn arrivin’
I see beyond the road I’m drivin’
Far away and left behind

It’s a new horizon and I’m awakin’ now
Oh I see myself in a brand new way
The sun is shinin’
the clouds are breakin’
‘Canse I can’t lose now, there’s no game to play

I can tell
There’s no more time left to criticize
I’ve seen what I could not recognize
Everthing in my life was leading me on
but I can be strong

I finally see the dawn arrivin’
I see beyond the road I’m drivin’
Far away and left behind

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About Lyrics and Don’T Look Back by Boston

The lyrics to Don’T Look Back are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Boston used when the song was created in 1978. The lyrics to Don’T Look Back have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Boston and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Don’T Look Back by Boston. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Don’T Look Back" means the words set to the music of Don’T Look Back, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Boston. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Don’T Look Back and the lyrics to Don’T Look Back are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Boston who came here looking just for the lyrics to Don’T Look Back, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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