Released: November 1, 1994
Songwriter: Tom Petty
Producer: Rick Rubin Tom Petty Mike W. Campbell
[Verse 1]
Waiting by the side of the road
For day to break so we could go
Down into Los Angeles
With dirty hands and worn out knees
[Chorus]
Ooh, I keep crawlin' back to you
Ooh, I keep crawlin' back to you
[Verse 2]
The ranger came with burning eyes
The chambermaid awoke surprised
Thought she'd seen the last of him
She shook her head, let him in
[Chorus]
Ooh, I keep crawlin' back to you
Ooh, I keep crawlin' back to you
[Bridge]
Hey baby, there's somethin' in your eyes
Tryin' to say to me
That I'm gonna be alright if I believe in you
It's all I want to do
[Verse 3]
It was me and my sidekick
He was drunk and I was sick
We were caught up in a barroom fight
'Til an Indian shot out the lights
[Verse 4]
I'm so tired of being tired
Sure as night will follow day
Most things I worry about
Never happen anyway
[Chorus]
Ooh, I keep crawlin' back to you
Ooh, I keep crawlin' back to you
Ooh, I keep crawlin' back to you
Ooh, I keep crawlin' back to you
I keep crawlin' back to you
Waiting by the side of the road
For day to break so we could go
Down into Los Angeles
With dirty hands and worn out knees
[Chorus]
Ooh, I keep crawlin' back to you
Ooh, I keep crawlin' back to you
[Verse 2]
The ranger came with burning eyes
The chambermaid awoke surprised
Thought she'd seen the last of him
She shook her head, let him in
[Chorus]
Ooh, I keep crawlin' back to you
Ooh, I keep crawlin' back to you
[Bridge]
Hey baby, there's somethin' in your eyes
Tryin' to say to me
That I'm gonna be alright if I believe in you
It's all I want to do
[Verse 3]
It was me and my sidekick
He was drunk and I was sick
We were caught up in a barroom fight
'Til an Indian shot out the lights
[Verse 4]
I'm so tired of being tired
Sure as night will follow day
Most things I worry about
Never happen anyway
[Chorus]
Ooh, I keep crawlin' back to you
Ooh, I keep crawlin' back to you
Ooh, I keep crawlin' back to you
Ooh, I keep crawlin' back to you
I keep crawlin' back to you
more tracks from the album
Wildflowers & All The Rest
- Wildflowers (Live)
- Honey Bee (Live)
- You Don’t Know How It Feels (Live)
- Wildflowers (Home Recording)
- To Find A Friend (Home Recording)
- There’s A Break In The Rain (Have Love Will Travel) (Home Recording)
- You Don’t Know How It Feels (Home Recording)
- Crawling Back to You (Home Recording)
- Harry Green
- California
- Crawling Back To You (Live)
- Time To Move On (Live)
- Hung Up And Overdue (Home Recording)
- Leave Virgina Alone (Home Recording)
- Wake Up Time (Home Recording)
- Only A Broken Heart (Home Recording)
- Walls (Live)
- To Find A Friend (Live)
- A Feeling Of Peace (Home Recording)
- California (Home Recording)
- Wake Up Time (Live)
- Climb That Hill Blues
- Leave Virginia Alone
- Something Could Happen
- Climb That Hill
- Cabin Down Below
- Hard on Me
- Honey Bee
- Only a Broken Heart
- It’s Good to Be King
- You Wreck Me
- Time to Move On
- You Don’t Know How It Feels
- Hope You Never
- Hung Up and Overdue
- Wildflowers (2014 Remaster)
- Confusion Wheel
- There Goes Angela (Dream Away) [Home Recording]
- Somewhere Under Heaven
- House in the Woods
- Wake Up Time
- Crawling Back to You
- To Find a Friend
- Don’t Fade on Me
- A Higher Place
From the albums
- Wildflowers (1994)
- Wildflowers & All The Rest (2020)
Tom Petty popular songs
- Free Fallin’
- Wildflowers
- I Won’t Back Down
- You Don’t Know How It Feels
- Runnin’ Down a Dream
- Yer So Bad
- You Wreck Me
- Girl On LSD
- It’s Good to Be King
- Crawling Back to You
- Time to Move On
- Honey Bee
- Square One
- Alright for Now
- Love Is a Long Road
- Wake Up Time
- Walls (circus)
- A Face in the Crowd
- Zombie Zoo
- The Apartment Song
- To Find a Friend
- The Great Wide Open
- Refugee
- Feel a Whole Lot Better