Dangerous

In May 2020, Nashville cops arrested Morgan Wallen outside Kid Rock's bar in downtown Music City for public intoxication and disorderly conduct. He wrote this song with Ernest K. Smith a couple of weeks later as a letter to himself. I don't wanna go downtown doin' what we used to Twist the top off another round, hell I got enough loose screws Wallen has now learned to stay clear of overdoing the drinking. He realizes such overindulging causes things to get "dangerous" for him.

Wallen explained in a iHeartCountry video that he sees "Dangerous" as a beacon pointing in a better direction. "'Dangerous' is a song that me and Ernest wrote a little bit after I got arrested in Nashville," he said. "Obviously, it wasn't anything super serious, but it was kind of a song that I wrote to myself in a way, if you read the lyrics and think of it that way I think it would make sense."

I could see me sittin' in the back of a cop car bangin' my head on a window I could see me slammin' that last call shot glass, losin' everything in my billfold Ooh, ooh That's what I do when I'm drinkin' 'bout you Though Wallen and Smith based most of the song on the unfortunate incident, the pair added a bit of fictitious romantic heartbreak. "We threw in a little bit of a love interest in there as well just to make it more universal," the singer explained. "To where people could throw their own story into it."