This song highlights John Osborne's guitar playing. On the EP, the track closes with a solo that lasts nearly three minutes long, edited down to a one-minute-long jam for the radio version. When asked by Taste of Country if producer Jay Joyce should be given some credit for the song's outro, TJ Osborne replied: "It's all John." "The one thing you can credit Jay to that solo is actually leaving it how it is," he added. "John, being a killer guitar player and kind of a perfectionist at times, wanted to go in and actually fix some of the moments and make it more perfect. Jay was like 'No, we're keeping this.'" "It's one take," TJ continued. "One guitar solo. All the weird bends … that's where Jay's brilliance comes in is knowing when to stop, when to leave the song alone."
The song was originally written and cut in the early 2010s, but TJ and John went back in the studio in 2014 to re-record the tune for their Brothers Osborne EP.
The guy doesn't get to stay with the girl in the song, so there's no happy ending. "It starts off and the verses are really emotional and fragile. You don't want to be alone, you're making the phone call [to an on-again, off-again lover], taking the trip to the house and then you're tearing T-shirts off and it's this electric thing," T.J. told Rolling Stone Country. "But then, boom, you're by yourself again: 'I'm lying here wishing you could stay a little longer.'"
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