Elliott Murphy's album version
| Elliott Murphy: | Everything I do |
| Leads me back to you | |
| A-see me standing in the acid rain | |
| A-full of existential pain | |
| (Ooh) A-you can look for love so long | |
| Until you're sure you'll never feel so good again | |
| (Ooh) Then you came along | |
| Like an angel, like a lover, like a friend | |
| Murphy and Springsteen: | Yeah everything I do (everything I do) |
| Leads me back to you | |
| Bruce Springsteen: | Well I'm a man without a place |
| Sometimes afraid to show my face | |
| Hear me humming in the night | |
| When you turn out the light | |
| (Ooh) They can blow my tires out | |
| 'Til I'm filled up with nothing else but doubt | |
| (Ooh) Still I'm rolling on my rims | |
| Oh baby, coming back to you again | |
| Murphy and Springsteen: | Yeah everything I do (everything I do) |
| Leads me back to you | |
| Elliott Murphy: | When I'm on the rise |
| When it's do or die or lullaby | |
| Would you take an alibi | |
| If I said was you and I | |
| Further on | |
| Murphy and Springsteen: | 'Cause it's everything I do (everything I do) |
| Everything I do (leads me back to you) | |
| Elliott Murphy: | You know it's hard for a man to sing |
| When his pride blocks everything | |
| A-you can have a way with words | |
| When your thoughts they can't be heard | |
| (Ooh) But don't take it the wrong way | |
| Like half the things I ever tried to say | |
| (Ooh) Well I got my demons too | |
| A-but my angels, they're all cheering for you | |
| Murphy and Springsteen: | 'Cause everything I do (everything I do) |
| It leads me back to you | |
| Yeah everything I do (everything I do) | |
| Leads me back to you | |
| 'Cause everything I do (everything I do) | |
| It leads me back to you | |
| Yeah everything I do (everything I do) | |
| Leads me back to you | |
| Everything I do (everything I do) | |
| It leads me back to you | |
| Yeah everything I do (everything I do) | |
| Leads me back to you |
EVERYTHING I DO (LEADS ME BACK TO YOU) is a song written by Elliott Murphy and released on his 1995 album Selling The Gold. The above lyrics are for Elliott Murphy's album version of EVERYTHING I DO (LEADS ME BACK TO YOU) as released in 1995.
Bruce Springsteen contributed to the studio recording of EVERYTHING I DO (LEADS ME BACK TO YOU), providing duet vocals. Eliot Murphy recorded his album at IPC Studios in Belgium. Springsteen overdubbed his parts around mid-1995 at Thrill Hill West, his home studio in Los Angeles, CA. The complete line-up on this track includes Andy Newmark (drums), Chucho Merchan (acoustic bass), Bertrand Bonello (acoustic piano), Kevin Mulligan (electric guitar), Frank Deruyter (horns), Serge Plume (horns), Carlo Mertens (horns), B.J. Scott (backing vocals), Mieke Delanghe (backing vocals), Elliott Murphy (acoustic guitar, lead guitar, voice), and Bruce Springsteen (vocal).
Elliott Murphy talking about the songs on Selling The Gold:
Everything I Do (Leads Me Back To You) is a complicated love song of sorts after finally realizing that to love another I must learn to love myself first. I wrote the song after listening to Lucinda Williams and admiring her sense of phrasing so much. Bruce Springsteen and I had done Rock Ballad together at one of his shows in Paris in 1992 and after 20 years of friendship it was the first time we sang together so I asked him to sing with me on this one because I thought our voices would blend well. He decided to sing that second verse without any prompting from me. I guess the "blow my tires out...rolling on my rims" imagery was irresistible.
In addition to its release on Selling The Gold, Elliott Murphy's album version of EVERYTHING I DO (LEADS ME BACK TO YOU) was also included on several other official releases.
As far as it's known, Bruce Springsteen has never performed EVERYTHING I DO (LEADS ME BACK TO YOU) live.
Thanks Jake (ol'catfishinthelake at BTX and Greasy Lake) for the lyrics help.
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