A bucket list is a list of activities a person puts together that they want to do before dying (kicking the bucket). Here, Mitchell Tenpenny is singing about living by his "bucket list" so he won't pass away with any regrets. "You never know how long you have on Earth," he told Apple Music, "so you need to try and live it to the fullest."
A bucket list normally comprises places you want to visit, and things you want to learn (a new language, scuba diving) and achieve (get a degree, write a book). So what is on Mitchell Tenpenny's bucket list? He sings here of loving a little more and dreaming a little deeper, so he doesn't have to ask himself "What if" at the end of his life.
Tenpenny wrote "Bucket List" with Chris DeStefano and Laura Veltz back in 2019, and released it on January 4, 2021. He dropped the song at the beginning of the new year, as 2020 "was completely unexpected and a lot of people lost so much." Tenpenny added that though the track doesn't speak to the coronavirus pandemic per se, he wants to encourage fans to make every day count. "My hope is that it inspires people to make goals and try to cross them off as fast as possible," he said.
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