Brian Hendrix

Been a really long time since I heard a country song about actually not getting a divorce and trying to save a marriage, so I thought I'd try to put my spin on one. A classic country feel to this, radio-friendly in length, I imagine.

On today, of all days -- I know a lot of people ask that. I heard someone say it somewhere the other night, and it just pestered me until I sat back in my recliner and wrote a song about it. The verses bleed directly into the chorus, which is what I think makes it pretty strong and catchy. The tempo changes a bit throughout as far as cadence goes. Though I try to construct in such a way that the intent of the song comes through text. I hope it does come through. I really like this one. Been singing it all morning.

About a girl who's suffering through some pretty bad depression, and there's a guy around her, trying to help, trying to let her know that he sees through all of that bad, stressful stuff and actually sees her as a beautiful, loving person, and he just wants her to take a chance and try to be happy, rather than staying lost in her own pain and emotions. I like how it turned out. Unique rhythm to it that may be hard to glean via reading text. Very alliterative, I think.

While I typically write country, this can go that way, or it sounds excellent more in the Bruno Mars sort of vein. It's about a guy who's in love with this friend's girl, so he fantasizes about her leaving him. It flows incredibly well rhythmically; I can't stress that enough. Just sing it sorta fast in a choppy, hard-emphasis-on-syllables fashion and it will come together so you get the gist of where I'm heading with it. I really enjoy it. It's something different for me.

Sometimes breakups happen abruptly and are anything but mutual, and so the person left is resolved to get their lover back. This is a song about that. "If I gave you flowers" was just a line in my head all day. I couldn't go to sleep until I wrote this song. I'm really happy with the way it turned out, especially the chorus. I think the wording throughout is very clever.