Written by: Beck Hansen
Versions:
- Back To You
Available on Gran Turismo 6.
CreditsBeck Hansen: Guitar (Electric), Vocals - Back To You (instrumental version)
Lyrics:
Back To You [Version (a)]:
Look out your red red eyes
Look out your red red eyes
And I can see through you
And all your little lies
Your empty words will fill my mind
Live in this world where it's killing mine
And I'm not dumb and I'm not blind
Just calling to you
Time bears a witness
Daylight streaming through
Shine your forgiveness
I'll be blind to you
Blind to you
I got your juju heart
I got your juju heart
And I can tell that it must be hell
Always trying not to fall apart
The empty love that you say is true
False eyelashes you can't see through
And you're not me and I'm not you
We're both alone in this world
Time bears a witness
Daylight in my eyes
Shine your forgiveness
Love them from the blind
Follow you, follow you
Your cold cold shadow is cast on you
Your cold cold shadow is casting over you
Time bears a witness
Daylight streaming through
Shine your forgiveness
I'll be blind to you
Blind to you
Blind to you
Look out your red red eyes
Look out your red red eyes
And I can see through you
And all your little lies
Your empty words will fill my mind
Live in this world where it's killing mine
And I'm not dumb and I'm not blind
Just calling to you
Time bears a witness
Daylight streaming through
Shine your forgiveness
I'll be blind to you
Blind to you
I got your juju heart
I got your juju heart
And I can tell that it must be hell
Always trying not to fall apart
The empty love that you say is true
False eyelashes you can't see through
And you're not me and I'm not you
We're both alone in this world
Time bears a witness
Daylight in my eyes
Shine your forgiveness
Love them from the blind
Follow you, follow you
Your cold cold shadow is cast on you
Your cold cold shadow is casting over you
Time bears a witness
Daylight streaming through
Shine your forgiveness
I'll be blind to you
Blind to you
Blind to you
Back To You (instrumental version) [Version (b)]:
[instrumental]
[instrumental]
The Song:
"Back To You" was registered in the copyright database in fall of 2012.
The song first showed in an episode of NCIS: Los Angeles. It was only in it very briefly, and the rest of the song has not been released or otherwise made available publicly (a 30-second snippet was online for about a year).
A few months after that, it was revealed it would be part of the Gran Turismo 6 soundtrack (a video game/driving simulator). It is in the soundtrack of the game, but is still not available to purchase anywhere else. You can hear it in its entirety on youtube, however.
The song, if you're wondering, sounds very much like "Bad Blood," an electric blues guitar rocker. It could not sound more like a Black Keys song.
There are some interesting lyrics in this, though intriguingly the phrase 'back to you' does not appear. Maybe that's what an earlier take of the lyrics were? Who knows, but I do like where these ended up. It's a basic portrait of more or less an evil woman (red eyes, lying, false, cold shadow), and the song seems to be at the moment when the narrator realizes this fact. "Time bears a witness / daylight in my eyes" is him realizing the truth.
An instrumental version of the song ended up in the 2014 film, Lucy. I believe it is only available in the film, and not for purchase or stream anywhere else.
"Back To You" was registered in the copyright database in fall of 2012.
The song first showed in an episode of NCIS: Los Angeles. It was only in it very briefly, and the rest of the song has not been released or otherwise made available publicly (a 30-second snippet was online for about a year).
A few months after that, it was revealed it would be part of the Gran Turismo 6 soundtrack (a video game/driving simulator). It is in the soundtrack of the game, but is still not available to purchase anywhere else. You can hear it in its entirety on youtube, however.
The song, if you're wondering, sounds very much like "Bad Blood," an electric blues guitar rocker. It could not sound more like a Black Keys song.
There are some interesting lyrics in this, though intriguingly the phrase 'back to you' does not appear. Maybe that's what an earlier take of the lyrics were? Who knows, but I do like where these ended up. It's a basic portrait of more or less an evil woman (red eyes, lying, false, cold shadow), and the song seems to be at the moment when the narrator realizes this fact. "Time bears a witness / daylight in my eyes" is him realizing the truth.
An instrumental version of the song ended up in the 2014 film, Lucy. I believe it is only available in the film, and not for purchase or stream anywhere else.