Chasing After You (with Maren Morris)

Ryan Hurd first met his wife Maren Morris in 2013 during a writing session shortly after Morris moved to Nashville. They started writing regularly together, including the ballad "Last Turn Home" for Tim McGraw, and began dating in 2015. Though Morris has provided background vocals on a couple of her husband's previous songs, "Every Other Memory" and "To a T," "Chasing After You" marks their first official studio duet.

Brinley Addington and Jerry Flowers wrote this sensual song about an up-and-down relationship. Hurd and Morris each give their perspective as two people who are unable to break away from their romance. Morris told Billboard the track reminded the pair of their early days when their friendship began to develop into something more. "It wasn't the easiest road for us to come together," she said. "We were in separate relationships when we met. We kind of grew a love out of a friendship over many years before we were out of those other relationships and could finally be together after some time. I think it reminds us of falling in love with each other and not being able to really act on it yet."

"Chasing After You" had been circulating around Nashville for years, and several artists had the song on hold before it fell into Hurd's lap. "I just really love the writing of this song. It's really simple, but the melody is just so effective," he told ET. "It's a song that I wish I had written and those are the ones I think that you end up recording when you're not the writer... It kind of makes me mad that I didn't write it, to be honest."