No Going Back
by Rox

Album: Memoirs (2009)
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Songfacts®:

  • Roxanne Tataei is a half Iranian, half Jamaican singer-songwriter from southeast London who makes nourishing soul music with a twist. By the age of ten, Rox was traveling across Britain, performing with the National Youth Music Theatre. After forming her first band in 2007, she attracted interest from a variety of labels, before signing with Rough Trade.
  • This is her debut single, which Rox told BBC Radio 2's Steve Lamacq that she wrote around early 2008. She added its about "leaving a relationship and not wanting to go back to that situation."

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  • Ekristheh from Halath, United States"Just you wait and see... you'll come back to me..." I'm serious, play the acoustic version of this b/w "Till You Come To Me" by Spencer Day.
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