Pick Up

Album: Black (2016)
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Songfacts®:

  • This is the second track on Black, an album that covers the ups and downs of a relationship. "When you're in the throes of a relationship, it can be crazy and lustful, even obsessive and jealous," said Bentley. "'Pick Up' drops into the sequence as that point when you just have to be closer to your girl."
  • The song was written by Andrew Dorff, Jaren Johnston and Jimmy Robbins. Sadly, this was one to be one of Andrew Dorff's last writing credits as he died aged just 40 in December 2016. The brother of actor Stephen Dorff, the Universal Music Publishing Group writer's best-known songs include the #1 hits Blake Shelton's "My Eyes" and "Neon Light;" Kenny Chesney's "Save It for a Rainy Day" and Hunter Hayes' "Somebody's Heartbreak."

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