Water Tower

This Jason Sellers, Paul Jenkins, and Michael Dulaney penned contemplative ballad finds Aldean singing about missing home. "That song is about Macon, Georgia, to me," he told Billboard magazine. "It's about me growing up in that town and wanting to get out and pursue this dream of being a singer, spending so much time working on that, and trying to get outtta there and be successful in the music business. Once that started to happen, all I wanna do is go back and hang out there now. That's kinda how it is for me. There's certain things I see on the way home that remind me, 'I'm back in my spot. Whether it's a street sign, a store, whatever it is, when I see it, it's, 'I'm back, I'm back to my place, where I'm comfortable.' It's home."

Scotty McCreery recorded a similarly titled track for his debut album, which has nearly the same theme.

One of the threads running through the Night Train album is a feeling of nostalgia, which Aldean told The Boot wasn't something that he initially set out to do . "I don't think it's something I deliberately look at," he said. "I think it's me just kind of being the age that I am. I think a lot of people my age, when you get around friends or whatever, I can't think of one time that I'm hanging out with my friends and we don't start about high school and being teenagers, and stuff you did back in those days. Not that I'm old. I think when you're mid-thirties, 40, I think that's kind of just what you do. So, of course I'm going to be drawn to songs like that. I think that's why you see some of that nostalgic feel scattered throughout that record."