Songfacts®:

• Here, Brandy Clark recounts some sad vignettes of people selling off their valuables to help them start over. There is a woman flogging her wedding ring, and a musician whose guitar doesn't support his family anymore.
  
  Jamey Johnson made a similar reference to a guitar in a pawn shop on his 2010 track "The Guitar Song." "I'm just a guitar in the pawn shop on the corner. And I'm waiting for someone to play me now and then."
• While Clark has a personal connection to pawn shops through an uncle who owned one, the actual inspiration for this song came from a different source. She explained to The Boot:
  
  "I was reading a book one time, and there was a guy, the guy at the pawn shop [in the book] who said, 'I have the job of telling people that something's not worth what they think it is.' That really hit me as a song idea."
• Clark wrote the song with Louisiana native Troy Verges, whose resumé also includes Hunter Hayes' "Wanted" and Tim McGraw's "Shotgun Rider."
• Other songs about pawn shops include two tracks with the same title by Brothers Osborne and Sublime, plus Lana Del Rey's 2010 tune "Pawn Shop Blues."