She's Everything

In this song, Paisley sings the praises of his dream girl, and all the ways she's everything to him: She's the voice I love to hear Someday when I'm ninety She's that wooden rocking chair I want rocking right beside me The girl is Kimberly Williams, the actress who starred in the movies Father of the Bride and We Are Marshall, and the TV series According to Jim and Nashville. The couple married in 2003.

The Nashville songwriter Wil Nance wrote this song about his wife, Holly. When Paisley heard the demo, he loved it, but he wanted to change the lyrics so they were about his wife - a pretty big deal since she's a famous actress. In the original version, the girl has auburn hair and drives a Chrysler LeBaron convertible. Paisley changed the hair color to brown and has her driving a Saturn with a sunroof, customizing the song for Kimberly. He also changed the color of the tennis shoes from red to yellow.

Wil Nance, who also wrote the George Strait hit "Round About Way," has composed thousands of songs, but "She's Everything" stands out as one that was particularly inspired. He makes the distinction between songmaking - when you're trying to crank out a tune - and songwriting - when you're trying to create a lasting work that moves people. In our interview with Nance, he said: "Songwriting is when you take a look at what's around you and you go, 'I'm going to write a song about that.' And, to be honest with you, those are easier to write. I was songwriting when I wrote that song: She's a red pair of tennis shoes She's a holey pair of jeans She's a pair of cool sunglasses She's a sexy little thing And then I started thinking about every other woman in the world plus my wife, and if I can get every woman to think this song was about them then I got a hit on my hands. That's how I approached that whole song."