Last Words

Album: Hillbilly Jedi (2012)
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  • John Rich told The Boot that this song has special meaning for him as he got to write it with his ultimate songwriting hero, Sharon Vaughn (Willie Nelson's "My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys"). "I've learned more from that woman about writing songs than from anyone else in the world," he said. "I love what the song says, too. It's a classic country thing in that it's saying, 'Hey baby, let's not go to bed mad.' But it says it in a really artistic way. And it sounds like Roy Orbison meets Queen!"

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