I thought it was a really neat first single to this next record and it's been really cool seeing the reaction of it as well. I love the arrangement, the production, and I feel like the music video really helped describe what that emotion was. As it fell out on a long summer's day, Two lovers they sat on a hill They sat together that long summer's day, And. I hadn't put a song like that out in a long time that kind of had that tension of love in it - really since a song called 'Marry Me' a couple records ago - and I just love the sentiment of the song. They'll fly to the south With worms in their mouths And tuck their heads under their wings The poor things It's gonna be a long spring And what will the birdies do then the poor things. Right when school started, it was like, 'We're going different ways.' getting out of high school, I was dating a girl and she went to different college than me. We kind of just related it to an emotion that I think a lot of us have been through of just getting out of high school or getting out of college, dating somebody and knowing you've got three months to maybe solidify this relationship or it's not going to work. We were kind of half fly fishing, half trying to write songs. We were in the living room and I noticed that the leaves were changing, and someone said, "I wish summer would slow down." As a songwriter, you hear words like that, and you're like, "Maybe we should try to write that." We were actually all in Montana on a writing trip and it was October, I think, and we really didn't know what to write. Below, Rhett shares the story behind the song, in his own words.
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