I'll Come Running Back

I'll Come Running Back is a Cockroaches song from their debut album. In 1994 or 95, it was adapted into to a Wiggles song: Big Red Car.

Paul and John Field share the vocal duties.

Song Credits

Written by Jeff Fatt and John Field , published by Wiggly Tunes Pty Ltd, previously published by EMI Music Publishing Australia Pty. Ltd.

Lyrics

A cold wind blows, right up your street

As I drag my timid feet

Now will she smile?

Or slap my face?

So many questions fill this place

But there's one answer I do know

I couldn't leave, I couldn't go

So I'll come running back to you

(Running back to)

I'll come running back to you

A choir sang, it was our song

Their tears, they filled the sacristy

I see your face, look sad at me

I hear the door slam as you run away

Seperation again

There's nothing left for me to do

So I'll come running back to you

(Running back to)

I'll come running back to you

(Instumental break)

Just like a cat left on its own,

I'm all alone

Look over my shoulder

Just like a bird when it gets cold

I'm on the coal

Back where it's warmer, yeah warmer

I prayed and prayed

Hoped that one day

(What did you pray?)

Oh, lord, ever find my way

There came at me, a beam of light

It hit my face and it hit my mind

You will always make me wonder

Wonder why a thousand times yeah

I'll come running back to you

(I'll come running back)

I'll come running ack to you

(I'll come running back)

So I'll come running back to you

(I'll come running back)

I-I-I I'll come running back to you

Trivia

• This was one of the first Cockroaches songs to not have a music video.

Gallery

1997 live

2014 live