Songfacts®:

• The Marias vocalist María Zardoya and drummer Josh Conway dated for six years, and their 2024 album, Submarine, was soaked in the freshly salted waters of their breakup. Released on April 4, 2025, "Back To Me" is the first missive from the emotional shoreline that came afterward.
• The song explores the pain and longing when an ex not only leaves, but thrives after moving onto someone new. Zardoya explores that familiar cocktail of jealousy, self-work, and the futile hope that your ex might still be thinking of you.
• According to Zardoya, the songwriting process was unusually immediate. The band was jamming around with some haunting synths and brooding chords when she stepped into the booth and pulled a fully formed song out of emotional either. "It felt like divine intervention," Zardoya said.
• When The Marias played "Back To Me" at Coachella on April 11, 2025, Zardoya introduced it with a cheerfully melancholy disclaimer: Yes, it's a very sad song, and no, it probably won't help.
  
  But she also told the crowd she was the happiest she's ever been. Sometimes, you've got to mourn a few versions of yourself to get there.