It wasn't meant to be...
Those cats just can't hang with the "Big Dogs".
What can I say? It's not hard to figure out where this song came from if one were to know and were to think about it. I had this melody and guitar lick as well as a title and some ideas for lyrics that I'd been kicking around for quite some time. I had known Billy McCorvey from the Pirates of the Mississippi for a few years but had never written with him. It's kind of hard to convince pro-writers that a lawyer can write too. But anyway, it was one of the all-nighters at Kristi's that just lent itself to a song. It was Kristi, Billy and I sitting around and pickin' after ordering pizza (thirty minutes or less) and when finally decided to try and write a song. I started to play the melody Kristi bit her tongue and that's how it started. Not too long after that, we had the song on a work tape and over time, I continued to work on the overall song. I had hoped that Billy would demo the song, but he never did so I decided the song was good enough to be cut and that's how it started. Once I knew that I could get a pedal steel player for the record, then I knew it had to be on there.
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