Conversation Piece

Album: Walls (2016)
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Songfacts®:

  • Caleb Followill wrote this somber ballad for his wife, Victoria's Secret model Lily Aldridge. It was inspired by her dreaming of moving to California but then reconsidering after living there during the making of the WALLS album.

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