Coming Home

"Coming Home" is an upbeat song about the desire for the security that home and family provides. There's nothin' in the world that feels like The place that I know where they all know me I gotta get back now to the ones who love me Wrap myself around you, never let you go There's nothin' in the world that feels like Coming home, home, home, mmm Coming home As a touring musician, Urban knows well that feeling of longing to return home to the people he loves.

The feel good tune samples the opening guitar riff of Merle Haggard's 1968 song "Mama Tried." The late country legend receives a writing credit along with the track's producers Urban and JR Rotem plus pop singer-songwriter Julia Michaels and frequent collaborator, Nicolle Gallyon ("We Were Us," "Female"). "'Coming Home' started with an idea I had of using the intro of one of my favorite Haggard songs, 'Mama Tried,' to build an entirely new song around it. Then, I took the idea to JR Rotem and he put some chords around it," Urban explained. "I called Theresa Haggard and Ben Haggard to play them what we'd been working on. It was important to me to have their blessing - and I'm so grateful that they love the song."

Urban explained his choice of sample to Billboard: "I've had this idea to use certain samples from famous country songs to try to write something new from it. But I don't want to sort of gratuitously shove a sample into a song where it didn't flow, but I did want to try to use something to create something new, and I always loved the intro of 'Mama Tried,' the rolling guitar and the (Fender) Telecaster line that's well-known to country fans."