Follow You Down - Edit

This is a very conditional love song. The guy will follow her down, but not that far. Many Gin Blossoms songs deal with relationships where one partner isn't ready to go all in. "Until I Fall Away" is another example.

A band composition, this was the first single from their second major-label album, Congratulations... I'm Sorry, and it was a big hit, spending 10 weeks in the US Top 10 and getting loads of airplay. It was also a last-minute addition. "We were working on the record, and I'd come home at night to my hotel room, and I had those chords, and finished writing by the time we got home," guitarist Jesse Valenzuela said in a Songfacts interview. "We'd already finished the record, but I had this great song, so I demoed it up and I sent it to my main A&R man, David Andaly, the great David Andaly, and he said, 'Why are you hiding this thing? Let's put it on the record.' So we went and recorded it right away."

After running off a string of hits from their 1992 album New Miserable Experience, Gin Blossoms got burned out from the contant touring. They took some time off, then returned in 1995 with "Til I Hear It From You" for the Empire Records soundtrack, then with the album Congratulations... I'm Sorry in 1996. Apparently, the time off wasn't enough: In 1997 they broke up, amicably. Ironically, in the final days before the breakup, they were invited by ASCAP (American Society of Composers and Publishers) to receive two awards for having the most-played songs the previous year, for "Til I Hear It From You" and "Follow You Down." They got back together in 2001, but had to record for an indie label and never had another hit.