 the saddest news all the time and just just uh just incredibly sad and depressed and dark and i remember listening to that song like i would listen to the the local country station on my way to work during that time just to try and get a boost i remember listening to that song and just it gave me like a four minute reprieve from everything that's really what we wanted to do when we wrote it because we wrote like right at the beginning we were probably excuse me two months in