What We Ain't Got

This Travis Jerome Goff and Travis Meadows-written piano and pedal-steel vocal ballad finds Jake Owen singing about a guy lamenting a lost relationship. He explained to Radio.com why as a happily married man, he can relate to the lyric about a heartbroken lover. "I don't think songs have to be literal in order for listeners to truly relate to them," said Owen. "I've definitely been there before, where I've let someone go that I shouldn't have. And looking back I could probably have been a better person. But where I am in my life right now, I have everything I need. I have a wife that I love, and a beautiful girl [his daughter Pearl]. But I kinda also want to be better dad, I want to be a better husband. And I think that's that same sentiment of wanting more than what you have right now."

Owen released the ballad as the third single from his Days Of Gold album. "It's a big, big step for me to put out a song that's a ballad that has a lot of meaning behind it," he told Radio.com. "It's a deep song that deals on a lot of levels with everyone looking at their own life. We all work so hard day to day, and we want more and more and more. This is a world of wanting more. It's a song about looking at where you are and appreciating what you have, 'cause once it's gone we all want what we don't have."

Co-writer Travis Meadows is a recovering alcoholic and cancer survivor and he originally released the song on his 2011 album Killin' Uncle Buzzy. "My whole world started over with that record," Meadows told Rolling Stone. "Jake has always been very kind to me. After he sang 'What We Ain't Got' on Jimmy Kimmel, he called me soon after. He goes, 'How'd I do, man? Did you like it?' It says a lot about his heart."