It was released in July 2001 as the third and final single from their fourth studio album, Spiritual Machines.

The single underperformed, ultimately causing its release as well as that of its music video to be aborted.

Matt Cameron of Pearl Jam performed the drums on this song while Our Lady Peace's own drummer, Jeremy Taggart, was recovering from injury.

This song, like many others on the album, was inspired by Ray Kurzweil's book The Age of Spiritual Machines.

The music video for "Right Behind You" was directed by Oli Goldsmith, who created all of the artwork for the Spiritual Machines project.