Bryan initially lacked confidence in the song. “I am the world’s worst at going, ‘Oh my God, what are we doing?’” he told The Boot. “I started freaking out, because I said, ‘Come on, Dal, we can’t talk about country girls shaking their butts all over the place in Country music.’ Dallas is rooting me on, and we kept on working on it. I played it for my producer and my wife and everybody. Everybody’s saying, ‘That thing’s going to be crazy.’ It’s a fun song, and it certainly adds to the live show and get some old country girls shaking a little bit.”

In an interview with The Boot, Krauss was asked about the record’s theme. She replied: “I’ll speak for myself because the guys [in Union Station] don’t really want to hear about… they’re like, ‘Whatever, you like it, you don’t like it.’ [laughs] It’s not something I’ve thought about until people ask me about it. To me, it’s like being in the middle of a very trying time and knowing it will end, but at the moment you’re in the middle of it.”

This introspective piano based power ballad finds a despairing Gary LeVox conveying the pain of a broken relationship.

Charles Kelly told The Boot: “It’s funny, after listening to the song more and more, it felt like it’s almost the next stage of ‘Need You Now.’ It’s like you’re past that… I guess you wanted me more than I wanted you. I don’t need this anymore. It’s cool to be continuing that story a little bit.”

Charles Kelley via Songfacts has explained: “We wrote that with honestly all the guys that are out there in our band on the road. So it’s a seven [member] co-write. There was something really strong about that lyric, ‘Wanted You More.’ We were in the studio, and this is kind of how these little great little melody things come out and different kind of hooks come out while you’re in there working on these songs,” he added.

Underwood discussed the song’s storyline during an interview with NPR’s Guy Ruz: “The song is a story about a girl and her father,” she said. “The song describes him as a mean old mister. And you can kind of make that as bad, I guess, as you want it to be. You know, the daughter wishes that, you know, she can feel a storm coming, and she just wishes it would wash her past away, and in doing so, you know, take her father along. So it’s a very, you know, just deep, dark story and so visual, this song is. You know, when you hear the words and you hear the music, you can just see it all happening in your head.”

Frontman Zac Brown explained this celebration of a rural lifestyle to the national radio show GAC Nights: Live From Nashville: “The song is basically just a list of all the things that I love. Pretty much, this is who we are. And granted it was four or five years ago when we finished the song and we wrote it, but that’s the roots, and basically it’s like the more we get along and the older we get, there’s very few songs that you can say ‘I believe in,’ and those are the things that I want to write about and sing about. And that was just one of those things that was captured in that song.”

Brown explained to The Boot that he penned the song during an anniversary of the 9/11 attacks: “It was right around September 11. I was living with a Marine friend of mine. I was realizing how fortunate we are to be free, travel and to play music or whatever it is that you do as an American that there is a cost that other people have paid for us to be able to do those things and enjoy all the simple things. That’s where the patriotic line of the song came from. Sometimes all of the little things get taken for granted and you forget about them. They’re the most important things in life. It was a reminder to myself and a reminder to everybody else to not take the little things for granted or the simple pleasures that really matter.”

The movie Act of Valor shows Navy Seals combating terrorists and is inspired by true events. “After seeing Act Of Valor, my co-writer [Monty Powell] and I wanted to capture the essence of not only what these men and women do so extraordinarily, but how that relates to all of us,” said Urban. “‘Valor’ shows us what they are willing to give their all for, which made me wonder, ‘What am I willing to give my life for?’ ‘For You’ is intended to allow the listener to define who that is for them.”

A postcard from anywhere when you’ve seen the real thing is saddening, but after Paris became fashionable this is even more depressing.