[Verse 1: Keane]

You're living in a place you left behind

Going round in circles all the time

Can see the way your head, it's like you're blind

So open your eyes in—

[Verse 2]

Time realign just what you got

With what you nearly had and what you want

You fall asleep and then the moment's gone

So open your eyes in time

[Pre-Chorus 1: K'naan]

Yeah...

It's hard to undo time

Hard to separate my past from my rhyme

Cause how can you separate milk from lime

Waste my time

[Chorus: Keane/K'naan]

Looking back

You always seem to be looking back

Feels like your mind's always somewhere else

You're always looking over your shoulder

[Verse 3]

Think of all the places you could never be

Beauty in the faces that you never see

As you lie there sleeping

How the moment flies

So open your eyes in time

[Pre-Chorus 2: K'naan/Keane]

Yeah...

They say life makes sense backwards

Only you gotta live it forwards

Don't waste your time, no

Don't waste your time just

[Chorus: Keane/K'naan]

Looking back

You always seem to be looking back

Feels like your mind's always somewhere else

You're always looking over your shoulder

Looking back

You always seem to be looking back

Feels like your mind's always somewhere else

You're always looking over your shoulder

[Bridge: K'naan]

Am I the only one trying to fight off an army

Of memories dressed up all trying to harm me

I feel cocky running up the steps like Rocky

Until the past come flashing like paparazzi

Nothing is new so I open my folder

My favourite view is over my shoulder

Everything backwards is my plight

It's landing first would end my flight

Even my tears run up my cheeks

Back in my eye

Live I die

I waste my time

[Chorus: Keane/K'naan]

Don't waste your time just looking back

You always seem to be looking back

Feels like your mind's always somewhere else

You're always looking over your shoulder

You always seem to be looking back

Feels like your mind's always somewhere else

You're always looking over your shoulder

[Outro: Keane]

You're always looking back

Over and over and over

You're always looking back