Songfacts®:

• Thomas Rhett penned this autobiographical track with his father, Rhett Akins, and regular collaborators, Jesse Frasure and Ashley Gorley. The first verse is about his quick ascension from college student to country music headliner, the second about getting married to his wife Lauren at 22 and the third talks about adopting their 18-month-old daughter Willa Gray in May 2017 while waiting on the birth of their own baby girl, Ada James.
  
  "It's kind of about my daughter and it's kinda about a lot of things," Rhett told Taste of Country. "Basically it goes from me being in college to me being here now and how drastically my life has changed in the last five or six years. And Willa being a huge part of that."
• Thomas Rhett had another reason to die a happy man when Life Changes debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 dated September 30, 2017. It was the first country album to reach #1 on the all-genre chart in 2017.
• The song was released as the fourth single from Life Changes on April 16, 2018, seven months after the album was dropped. The radio edit features a lyric change reflecting the birth of Adam James. The line in the third verse where Rhett sings, "Now Lauren's showing, got one on the way" is altered to "Now there's Willa, and sweet Ada James."
• When Thomas Rhett penned the song he didn't know whether it would even make it onto his record - let alone become its title track. "It was written super late in the album-making process," he said. "That song was written out of... wanting to talk about a few moments that we felt were super pivotal to where we were at today."
  
  "That song is definitely one of those songs that's just in-the-moment, and I kind of just wrote it because it was what I was going through," Rhett added. "I never in a million years thought it would be a single."