Going Back to Yesterday - James

Sometimes the present hurts enough to make yesterday feel like the only place you want to be. In *“Going Back to Yesterday,”* James is facing the end of a love he still isn't ready to lose. He knows he can't turn back time or change her mind, but memory offers him one last place where they can still be together. He remembers summer nights, holding hands, and the simple certainty of believing their love would last forever. And when the present becomes too painful, all he has to do is close his eyes. I’m going back to yesterday Just close my eyes and drift away Back to a time when you were mine The music travels backward with him, bringing touches of the romantic innocence of early rock-and-roll into James's contemporary country sound. Those echoes of another era aren't simply nostalgia—they become part of the story, as a grown man reaches back toward the younger couple they once were. *“Going Back to Yesterday”* is a bittersweet song about love, memory, and that impossible wish most of us have felt at one time or another: *If only we could turn back the hands of time.* *Words & Music by Joe McMichael © 2024* *Performed by James* 🎸❤️