That song is a story that shows how easily you could get slipped into being labeled as the bad guy, even though what you really trying to do is tell the bad guy to leave you alone.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think I bring the songs that aren't about me or related to me to life. It's like the song 'How Do I Let A Good Man Down?' Let me tell you, I didn't write that song - because if I have a good man, I ain't going to let him down.
Going after 'the bad guy' has not been a real issue for me.
It was easy to be the bad guy throughout.
One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a story. I believe it is supposed to be based around a story.
I've written a few songs that have to do with being in a relationship, the bad and the good.
I never try and play a bad guy to be bad and to be brutal and to be nasty and vicious, because I think you're going to be very cliche there. You know, you've got to find the truth in that character and what he believes in. It just happens that, you know, he's wrong.
The bad guy in any good storytelling is always, in some weird way, a mirror for your hero's journey and for the challenges that they are facing and is some weird physical externalization of that fear that the character is holding onto and has to overcome.
It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.
And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate.
One of the nice things about a favorite pop song is that it's an unconditional truce on judgment and musical snobbery. You like the song because you just do, and there need not be any further criticism.