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Guaranteed Human. On the Bobby Bones show now. George Burge. The great Jorge Burge is here. You always make me feel so good when I come hang out with you guys, Bobby. That's what I love you, buddy. Tell me about writing that song, I won't be long. Because that's a good one. First time I heard it, I was like, man, I've heard it 10 million times now, so now it's just like white noise.

But the first couple time I heard it, I was like, man, I've heard it 10 million times now, so now it's just like white noise.

But the first couple times I heard it, I was like, man, it makes me emotional.

Tell me about the song. I always get nervous when I send you songs because I know you're going to be honest, and that's why I like you. It's because we're actually friends. and this is as I was kind of starting to grow as an artist.

This was my third single to radio.

I'd had my first two hits that had changed my life and kind of opened some doors for me. And I felt like with the third song, I just wanted to be a little bit more open as a songwriter, tell a little bit more of my story, and dig a little bit deeper. And so that was his swing for me. And it was one of the coolest songs that I've ever been a part of writing just

because every line of the song is true from, you know, being nervous to ask Kara my wife on a first

date, to taking a starter house to the studs, to us going to T-ball games and watching our kids play

these days. It's all like real-life stories, which it makes it fun to sing. And I think because we drilled down so deep on all those pictures, other people have been

kind of connecting with it in their own lives.

And that's probably made the song the most special for me is to hear people kind of

plugging their own memories into it.

But what I didn't think about was because it is such like a real and raw song for me is like the first month that I played it, I got choked up every time I played it.

And now I've played it enough where I'm fine.

But like the first month I was like, man, I'm going to do this for the rest of my life.

Is it weird going into a room, riding with other people and you're being really, really personal?

Does it feel like, oh, man, I'm kind of pouring my guts out to folks and I don't only know them that well. A hundred percent. Yeah. And it's something that takes him getting used to too, too, because like you said, that was my first time. Trani Anderson is a writer on that song with me. She's an amazing songwriter. And it was literally the first time I'd ever been in the writing room with Trani. And so we had started this song and it was

great, but it wasn't exactly what I was looking for. And then we just kind of started talking about life, which is a great way to kind of pause in the writer's room if you feel like things aren't going the exact direction you want. And so we just started talking about life. And she's an incredible piano player. and she started playing piano and just kind of had this way kind of putting me at ease and it was when we started like telling those stories and getting to

know each other a little bit that the song fell out um but it takes a second to like get vulnerable

enough um to tell the stories that people want to hear and and something that i've learned kind of as

I've started to grow as an artist and as a songwriter is,

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