KASSI ASHTON RELEASES NEW TRACK “I DON’T GO BACK” TODAY
Videos for “I Don’t Go Back” and “Dates In Pickup Trucks” Performed Live at VEVO Studio Out Now
MCA Nashville and Interscope Records artist Kassi Ashton releases new song “I Don’t Go Back,” today. Written by Ashton with Luke Laird and Hillary Lindsey, “I Don’t Go Back” is a slow, introspective track shows off Kassi’s soulful voice as the lyrics allow her to reminisce over good parts of that past while being exactly where she wants to be in the present, “I’m a moving on, straight ahead. Eyes on the road always does me best. I’m out with the old, in with the new. Yeah, I don’t go back but if I did, it’d be to you,” and “I don’t miss who I was, I’m exactly where I wanna be now. These ain’t tears, this ain’t no flood. It’s just a song that I can’t turn down.”
“My favorite part of songwriting is giving someone a real piece of myself from a certain time in my life,” shares Kassi. “It’s more than sharing a picture and it’s more than sharing a story; it’s sharing a feeling. When I wrote this song in 2017 with Luke and Hillary, we all put a piece of ourselves in it. I hope you listen and feel and find a piece of yourself too.”
Listen to “I Don’t Go Back” HERE
Along with the new song, Kassi brings two live performance videos to light today from a recent trip to VEVO Studio in Brooklyn, N.Y. Watch “I Don’t Go Back” HERE and “Dates In Pickup Trucks” HERE.
Kassi’s debut radio single, “Dates In Pickup Trucks,” is playing now on country radio. She also makes several appearances at next week’s CMA Fest in Nashville including a performance on the Chevy Vibes Stage on Saturday, June 11.
“I Don’t Go Back” Lyrics:
I don’t cry
But if I did, there’d be an Eric Church song playing
In my car
Driving past the blue school doors that are faded
I’m not sad
But if I was, there’d be a ’97 F-250
Driving away
In my head while I’m in Nashville feeling guilty
I’m a moving on, straight ahead
Eyes on the road always does me best
I’m out with the old, in with the new
Yeah, I don’t go back but if I did, it’d be to you, you, you
I don’t go reminiscing
But when I do, it’s usually when I’ve been drinking
Like tonight
Start thinking about you playing pool in your mama’s basement
I don’t wanna be 17 again
I don’t go chasing around could-have-been’s
And I don’t regret
That ain’t me but if I did I know where I’d be ‘cause
I’m a moving on, straight ahead
Eyes on the road always does me best
I’m out with the old, in with the new
Yeah, I don’t go back but if I did, it’d be to you, you, you
I don’t miss who I was, I’m exactly where I wanna be now
These ain’t tears, this ain’t no flood
It’s just a song that I can’t turn down’
I don’t cry
But if I did there’d be an Eric Church song playing, playing
I’m a moving on, straight ahead
Eyes on the road always does me best
I’m out with the old, in with the new
Yeah, I don’t go back but if I did, it’d be to you, you, you
It’d be to you, you, you