Today’s Behind The Song Sunday is “Back To You” from my album ‘What Are You Waiting For?”. 

The original version of song was actually an online collaboration that I did with an amazing and talented DJ based in Toronto.  She composed the music and was looking for someone to add lyrics to it. She contacted me through a music site we were both on asking if I could come up with lyrics for the song. I’ve never really done anything like that before and was like “Yes… Yes I’ll do it” then quickly thought afterwards “What did I just agree to?” haha.  Well, she sent me the music and I listened to it and as soon as I heard the progression going into the chorus… I began singing “if I could rewrite it all…” and within a couple minutes the chorus was at least written.
The rest of the words came to me very easily as it slowly became about the last conversation I had on the phone with my Baba on Christmas morning ‘08.  She apologized to me for leaving when I was little and never staying in contact with us… she wished she could of turned back time for all she missed.  She passed away the following month in 2009.

“Back To You” became one of my personal favourite songs and I had asked permission to re-record the song with my band to put on my next album.  After getting the A-okay, the version we created was re-born and I fell more in love with it. (You can still listen to the collaboration recording on YouTube as a fan made an amazing video to go along with it.)

You can listen to the song here:

https://jamierumley.bandcamp.com/track/back-to-you

Enjoy and have a lovely rest of your weekend!

Jamie