OUR PAST IS IN MY WAY
(Betty Sue Perry)

Jean Shepard - 1965


Our past is always present 
Where my future is concerned
And I've found the doors all locked to me 
No matter where I turn


I can't even build new mem'ries
When your memory's here to stay
And I cannot face the future 
For our past is in my way


I can't go out with someone else 
And do the things we'd do
And I can't even look ahead
For looking back at you


I'm torn between tomorrow 
And the scars of yesterday
And I cannot face the future 
For our past is in my way


(Instrumental Break)


I was so much stronger yesterday
When you walked by my side
But I'm weaker for you left me here
And the heart within me died


What I was speaks so much louder 
Than what I am today
And I cannot face the future 
For our past is in my way






(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - January 2011)