We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Keith Urban’s “Come Back To Me,” written by Shane McAnally, Brandy Clark, and Trevor Rosen, is “Drops of Jupiter” meeting “I Hope You Dance,” and the video Urban released today absolutely mirrors the desperate admirability of those emotions. “Yeah, I wanna hold you, but I don’t wanna hold you back,” Urban sings, alone in a large room as pictures of her life without him play on the distant walls. It’s haunting and gripping, and a fitting treatment of the emotive song.
Interested in what the demo sounded like? McAnally included the song on a grouping of demos released by Spotify, along with a description of what went into the writing of the track. Check out the demo – which instrumentally has a very different feel – and his comments on the song here.
“Come Back To Me,” produced by Urban and Butch Walker, appeared on Urban’s 2013 album Fuse, and if made a single, would be the seventh from the album. “Raise ‘Em Up,” featuring Eric Church, recently hit #1 for the singer.