Inside the chaos of CMA Fest in Nashville, Chris Young and Katie Neal slowed down long enough to catch up, talking about his new sports bar, the deluxe of his latest album, 'I Didn’t Come Here To Leave,' and how the title track came to be.
The party atmosphere of Chris Young’s “I Didn’t Come Here To Leave” was actually penned at 9AM according to the singer, but it was inspired by one last beer the night before.
“This song sounds like we wrote it at 9PM, we wrote it at 9 in the morning,” shares Young. “Dallas Davidson and I were hanging out. We hadn't run into each other in a long time.”
“I was just waiting for traffic to die down. He goes, ‘do you wanna have one more beer?’ And I was like, ‘oh, sure, if you do.’ And he goes, ‘I didn't come here to leave.’ And I was like, ‘please tell me you haven't already written that as a song,’ and he's like, ‘No, man, I haven't.’”
Chris pushed to write the song in the morning, but Davidson already had a writing session scheduled for 11AM. “I was like, ‘will you do 9AM? I bet we can knock this out.’ I was like, ‘I bet we can do this in 2 hours.’ And we ended up writing the song in under an hour.”
“It was just one of those serendipitous [things], like if I hadn't been hanging out with him… if all those things don't fall into place, that song never gets written or it gets written by somebody else somewhere on down the road.”
To hear more about the deluxe edition of I Didn’t Come Here To Leave, and Young’s new sports bar in Nashville, listen to the full conversation above.
