Songfacts®:

• Allan told Country Weekly magazine that he came up with this song on a songwriting trip to Costa Rica with Odie Blackmon and Jim Lauderdale: "I found a house that was in the middle of a wildlife preserve. It was 6 hours from the airport. We'd never do it again, because it took too long to get to the airport. It backed up to a marine preservation. We couldn't even get there by car, we had to have guys carry our stuff across the river and get us to this place. I paid some lady to come and cook for us. She charged me $7 a day. These fishing boats would come in in the morning and we would choose what we wanted to eat, and she would cook it that day. We were woken up by baboons every morning. Jim is quite the character - he's way into tai chi and stuff like that. I'd have my coffee every morning and there were a few guys that gave jungle tours that would hike up to see us because they could hear us playing music. There's nothing forever, so you could hear us far away. I just love the visual of those guys sitting there watching Jim do tai chi in the jungle.It's the first time I'd ever sat down and written 24/7 like that. That's all we did, was sit around with guitars and kick over stuff. I needed that. My wife had just passed. I'm sure they were looking at me going, 'He is a wealth of emotion right now.'" Allan laughed then added: "It was good for all of us. The song that made the record off of that session was 'We Touched the Sun.'"