"Watching You" was written by Atkins with Brian Gene White and Steve Dean. According to the Watching You Songfacts, the origins of the song lay in Atkins discovering that his son, Elijah had been singing his 2006 hit "If You're Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows)" to his teachers. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.