Outlaw in Me

Album: The Devil Don't Sleep (2017)
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Songfacts®:

  • In June 2015 Brantley Gilbert married his longtime love, Amber Cochran. During this ballad, Gilbert confesses that he never felt like he could be himself with any other woman, before Amber came along.

    My baby don't try to change me
    She knows this is the way God made me


    "I never thought I'd be loved the way that she loves me by somebody who knew me through the good, the bad, and the ugly, and knows everything about me," Gilbert marvelled to Billboard magazine. "She does, and that's an amazing feeling."

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