☝️ Key Points
- The song is about loneliness and sadness.
- The person feels as alone and down as never before.
- They hope to be able to return to their loved one the next morning.
- The person prays and hopes that their prayers will be heard.
- The chorus emphasizes the return to the loved one.
Interpretation
The lyrics of the song 'Backtrack' by
Faron Young are about a person who feels very lonely and sad. They are as alone and downhearted as they have ever been. In the lyrics, the person describes that they will return the next morning to go back to their beloved. The image of the beloved is always with them and they kiss it as if they were kissing their beloved. The person misses the beloved very much.
In the next part of the lyrics, it is expressed that the situation will be different the next evening because they will be holding their beloved in their arms again. The person hopes that the beloved will forgive them when they return. The person feels like a fool if the beloved were to forget them. They pray and hope that their prayers will be heard and that they can return to their beloved the next morning.
The chorus repeats the thought that the person will return to the beloved. It is emphasized that the person will take the backtrack to be with the beloved again.