Running For You

Kip Moore penned this song during one lonely, sleepless night. "I actually got off the road at about 2 a.m. one night, and I used to live in this really awful building where there were no TVs, no couches, nothing," the singer recalled to Entertainment Tonight. "All I had were some amps set up and my electric guitars, and it forced you to constantly stay in that mode of writing." "I happened to get off the road, and I couldn't sleep, and I picked up my guitar at 3 or 4 a.m., and I started playing the opening riff," he continued. "I started thinking about how my life has constantly pulled me away from people that I care about, and it's made a strain on that whole kind of thing - knowing what my life has been and what I'm after, it's just made it virtually impossible to keep something steady."

Having coming up with the original idea, Moore completed the tune with Troy Verges and Blair Daly. "We just wrote a song about when you really care about somebody, you wanna see 'em shine, and you wanna see 'em go grab what they're after," he said. "The people in my life have always been really encouraging and wanting to see me do great - it was my way of spinning that and making it about the girl. I think when you really, really care about somebody, it shouldn't be a selfish thing."

Kip Moore had filed this song away for a while before he recorded it for Wild Ones. "I almost gave it away to a few different artists that wanted it," he told Billboard magazine. "I've kept it in my back pocket for a few years. They wanted me to put it on the first record, but I felt like I needed to wait for it. I knew it was a big song. I'm glad I did."