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Back From The Dead

By Skillet

5 views Oct 29, 2026 updated Verified editorial review

Song Meaning

Skillet turns resurrection into a stadium-sized adrenaline rush here, opening in a cold, black coffin where the singer has been written off and left for forgotten. The imagery stays physical and combative: enemies claw at his eyes, he scratches and bleeds to stay alive, and zombies prowl at night but never manage to catch him. There's a taunting edge to the defiance — the people who tried to keep him down are told they'll never forget him now, and the second verse flips the wound around, promising to bite back after being broken and poisoned. The chorus trades the graveyard for pure momentum, lighting up and burning, chasing the rush of adrenaline, flying at the speed of light, and landing on a trio of declarations: full of love, full of light, full of fight. A bridge plants its feet — deep down, for the count, don't you dare count me out, never break, never bow. The stuttering hook drills the title into your head like a chant. Read as a Christian song, the comeback reads as a picture of being raised out of death into something loud and unashamed, though the lyrics keep the supernatural mostly in metaphor rather than naming its source.
Lyrics Verified by Editorial Team

B-b-b-b-b-back-back-back
B-b-b-b-b-back-back-back
B-b-b-b-b-back-back-back
B-b-b-b-b-back-back-back

Cold and black inside this coffin
Cause you all try to keep me down
How it feels to be forgotten
But you'll never forget me now

Enemies clawing at my eyes
I scratch and bleed, just to stay alive, yeah
The zombies come out at night
They'll never catch me
They'll never catch me
B-b-b-b-b-back-back-back
B-b-b-b-b-back-back-back

Light it up, light it up, now I'm burning
Feel the rush, feel the rush of adrenaline
We are young, we are strong, we will rise
Cause I'm back, back, back from the dead tonight
To the floor, to the floor, hit the red line
Flying high, flying high at the speed of light
Full of love, full of light, full of fight
Cause I'm back, back, back from the dead tonight

B-b-b-b-b-back-back-back
B-b-b-b-b-back-back-back

Break the skin, you spread like poison
Dying slow when we all attack
How it feels to be the broken
You took a piece, now I'm biting back

Enemies clawing at my eyes
I scratch and bleed, just to stay alive, yeah
The zombies come out at night
They'll never catch me
They'll never catch me
B-b-b-b-b-back-back-back
B-b-b-b-b-back-back-back

Light it up, light it up, now I'm burning
Feel the rush, feel the rush of adrenaline
We are young, we are strong, we will rise
Cause I'm back, back, back from the dead tonight
To the floor, to the floor, hit the red line
Flying high, flying high at the speed of light
Full of love, full of light, full of fight
Cause I'm back, back, back from the dead tonight
Back, back, back from the dead tonight

Deep down, for the count
Don't you dare count me out
Never break, never bow
Never beg, not a doubt

The zombies come out at night
They'll never catch me
They'll never catch me
B-b-b-b-b-back-back-back
B-b-b-b-b-back-back-back
B-b-b-b-b-back-back-back
B-b-b-b-b-back-back-back

Light it up, light it up, now I'm burning
Feel the rush, feel the rush of adrenaline
We are young, we are strong, we will rise
Cause I'm back, back, back from the dead tonight
To the floor, to the floor, hit the red line
Flying high, flying high at the speed of light
Full of love, full of light, full of fight
Cause I'm back, back, back from the dead tonight
Back, back, back from the dead tonight

(B-b-b-b-b-back-back-back)
Dead tonight
(B-b-b-b-b-back-back-back)
Back from the dead tonight
(B-b-b-b-b-back-back-back)
Dead tonight
(B-b-b-b-b-back-back-back)
Back from the dead tonight

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