Unlove You

Album: Playing With Fire (2015)
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Songfacts®:

  • This sombre ballad finds Jennifer Nettles singing of a relationship that has ended but she is unable to let go. The Sugarland star debuted the tune during her solo fall 2015 Playing With Fire Tour.
  • Jennifer Nettles co-wrote the track with Brandy Clark, whose other credits include The Band Perry's"Better Dig Two" and Miranda Lambert's "Mama's Broken Heart".
  • When Nettles performed the song at CMT's Next Women of Country showcase on November 3, 2015, she introduced the tune by saying that country music "celebrates brokenness, and it takes realness in life and shines a light through it," adding that "there is beauty in all of this because it is life."

Comments: 2

  • Scarlett from FlThis song is about an affair. They’re both married to other people - we have other lives & we know it ain’t right. They’ve unexpectedly & finally met their person, their soulmate - I wasn’t lost until you found me & - I can’t un know this, Lord I wish I knew how.
  • Thomas Cruz from El Paso,txFor my best friend of 37 years " Sarah ". I say I LOVE YOU all the time. On Feb. 29th Leap Year Day, I'm allowed to say I'M In Love With You. I hope and pray that we both are still here 4 years from now so I can tell you again. Fight your battle, I'll fight mine. Love Always .... Tom
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