Whether you’ve always been a die heart country lover or the recent surge for the beloved tunes has caused you to find yourself tapping your foot and humming along to the music, or even if you can’t stand a single song, chance are somewhere out there, there’s a lyric that applies to your life in some way or another. So here are a list of 10 times a country artist managed to write your life into their latest song.
1. Break Ups
Break ups can bring out a lot of emotions. Whether you feel like you see your ex all over (“Break Up In A Small Town” Sam Hunt), like a slash in his tires would do him a little good (“Before He Cheats” Carrie Underwood) or your still hurting (“What Hurts The Most” Rascal Flats), whatever you’re feeling during this tough time, you’re bound to find one of these great artists who can relate.
2. Drunken Nights (Days)
Whether it’s a night out with the girls (“Bartender” Lady Antebellum) or it’s the first nice day of spring and all the kids on campus have come out of hibernation for a lil bit of “Day Drinking” (Little Big Town) you’re bound to find a song that fits your mood when the drinks are flowing.
3. Missing Someone
Every once and a while you find yourself missing someone who has passed and wishing that Heaven wasn’t so far away (“If Heaven Wasn’t So Far Away” Justin Moore) or when you want nothing more than for that one person you miss to be here (“You Should Be Here” Cole Swindell) someone know just how you’re feeling.
4. Falling In Love
Some could argue that one of country music’s main pillars is love, and they wouldn’t be wrong. Hundreds of artists have wrote about their experiences with loving especially falling in love. While some say they thought they loved you (“Then” Brad Paisley), others claimed that “I Don’t Dance” (Lee Brice) but found they were wrong.
5. Moving On
Whether you’ve taken the step towards leaving that bad relationship and you’d rather not hear how bad he/she misses you (“Keep it to yourself” Kacey Musgraves) or you’re taking a minute to look how far you’ve come since your last major milestone in life (“Better Than You Left Me” Mickey Guyton) everyone’s been there at one point or another and country music can help relate to that.
6. Adventures
Life itself is one great adventure filled with new things each and every day, and chances are each of these new exciting things has a song that relates to one of your latest endeavors. Whether you’re taking everything one step at a time as the “Days Go By” (Keith Urban). Or maybe you’re just riding the highway we just like to call life (“Life Is A Highway” Rascal Flatts).
7. Growing up
Some days we find ourselves realizing that time has once again managed to fly by and we find ourselves to be one year older and hopefully wiser but we also are hoping the time will slow down because you’ve been told “You’re Gonna Miss This” (Trace Atkins) or to make sure to take anything for granted because it’ll all be gone in the blink of an eye (“Don’t Blink” Kenney Chesney).
8. Being grateful
A couple of artists have taken the time to reflect and have come to the realization as many have, that they wouldn’t be where they are today without certain people and situations that have brought them to “This” (Darius Rucker) or that at the end of the day they’re so grateful that, that one special person was placed in their life for the good and bad times (“God Gave Me You” Blake Shelton).
9. Faith
Whether you’re religious or not you may have found that some country songs really resonate with you and may even help to remind you (“That’s What I Love About Sunday” Craig Morgan) or that every once and a while when you don’t know what is going on or why it’s happening it’s OK to let (“Jesus Take The Wheel” Carrie Underwood).
10. Pride For Where You Come From
A nationalist through and through or just a hometown lover, no matter if you’ve left the place you called home all your childhood or you just love the great US of A, there’s bound to be some song that reminds you (“These are My People” Rodney Atkins) or that despite where you are now you’ll always be a “Homegrown Honey” (Darius Rucker).