Crawling Back to You

## Single by Daughtry

"**Crawling Back to You**" is a song by Daughtry, released on October 3, 2011, as the second single and second track from their third studio album, *Break the Spell* (2011). The song was written by Chris Daughtry and Marti Frederiksen, with production handled by Howard Benson.

## Background and composition

Daughtry revealed to MTV News that it was initially intended to be on their previous album, *Leave This Town*, though it didn't make the cut. He continued, "the more we listened to it, the more we were like, 'Man, it gets to that moment, and then it's a letdown.' So we realized the chorus wasn't quite right, and when I was working with [producer] Marti [Frederiksen] again for this record, we went back to it, and he goes, 'Let's try going here, man,' and I came up with the melody and that was it."

## Music video

The accompanying music video was directed by Laurent Briet, produced by Emily Wiederman, and premiered on October 26, 2011. Daughtry stated their main focus was to "look cool" with the camera motions, angles, and effects. The behind-the-scenes video was directed by Paige Long.

## Personnel

* Andrew Schubert – mixing engineer
* Brad Townsend – mixing engineer
* Brian Craddock – guitar
* Chris Daughtry – vocals, lyricist, composer, guitar
* Chris Lord-Alge – mixing engineer
* David Schwerkolt – assistant engineer
* Howard Benson – keyboards, producer, programmer
* Jimmy Fahey – assistant engineer
* Joey Barnes – drums
* Josh Paul – bass
* Josh Steely – guitar
* Keith Armstrong – assistant engineer
* Lenny Skolnik – strings, programmer
* Marti Frederiksen - lyricist, composer
* Mike Plotnikoff – recording engineer
* Morgan Stratton – assistant engineer
* Nik Karpen – assistant engineer
* Paul DeCarli – editor

## Lyrics

**Lyrics**
[Verse 1]

Lessons learned and bridges burn to the ground

And it's too late now to put out the fire

Tables turned and I'm the one who's burning now

Well, I'm doing alright

'Til I close my eyes

And then I see your face

And it's no surprise

[Chorus]

Just like that, I'm crawling back to you

Just like you said I would, yeah

I swallowed my pride, now I'm crawling back to you

Yeah, I'm out of my head, can't wait any longer

Down on my knees, I thought I was stronger

Just like that, like you said I'd do

Yeah, I'm crawling back to you

[Verse 2]

Time can heal, but the scars only hide the way you feel

And it's hard to forget how I left you hangin'

On by a thread, with everything I said, I regret it, yeah

Well, I was doing alright, thought I could make it

Then I see your face and it's hard to fake it

[Chorus]

Just like that, I'm crawling back to you

Just like you said I would, yeah

I swallowed my pride, now I'm crawling back to you

Yeah, I'm out of my head, can't wait any longer

Down on my knees, I thought I was stronger

Just like that, like you said I'd do

Yeah, I'm crawling back to you

[Verse 3]

If you could find a way to forgive everything, I know you would

And I would take it all back if only I knew that I could

Lessons learned and bridges burn to the ground

And it's too late now to put out the fire

[Chorus]

Just like that, I'm crawling back to you

Just like you said I would, yeah

I swallowed my pride, now I'm crawling back to you

Yeah, I'm out of my head, can't wait any longer

Down on my knees, I thought I was stronger

Just like that, like you said I'd do

Yeah, I'm crawling back to you

[Outro]

Yeah, I'm crawling back to you

I'm crawling back to you

I'm crawling back to you

## References

1. ↑ Montgomery, James (October 27, 2011). "Daughtry 'Wanted to Look Cool' in 'Crawling Back to You' Video". *MTV News*.