Never Wanna Go Back

People & Songs and May Angeles sing “Never Wanna Go Back,” a song of gratitude for forgiveness and a new direction. The song starts with the singer praising God’s love and grace: “Great is Your love, Your love for me. Sin cast away, from west to east. Oh God, Your grace for me, it never ends.” The line “I praise You” is repeated across several measures, building into a joyful response.

The chorus speaks of leaving the past: “I never wanna go back, there's something better. It gives me hope that will last, it lasts forever. I leave my guilt in the past, and now my future is in the cross.” The verse after it recalls that God's mercies are “new every day” and that he works for the singer's good “in every way.” The closing section reinforces the stance of the person who has been changed: “The cross before me, the world behind me,” with “His love surrounds me” and “His Spirit's in me.” The repeated phrases in parentheses add a congregational response, and the repeated lines make it easy to sing along from the first time.

Sin removed as far as the east from the west is Psalm 103:12. Mercies new every morning are in Lamentations 3:22-23, and boasting only in the cross is Galatians 6:14.