This song finds Miranda Lambert singing to The Wizard of Oz's mythical Tin Man, a character who really wanted a heart so he could feel emotions. Lambert tries to talk him out of it, assuring him that circulatory organs aren't all they're cracked up to be. "If you ever felt one breaking, you'd never want a heart," she croons.
Lambert's metaphor of The Wizard of Oz's heart-lacking character is an image of life after heartbreak and it's easy to imagine it was inspired by her divorce from Blake Shelton.
Lambert co-wrote the song with Jack Ingram and Jon Randall in the summer of 2015, around the time she announced her divorce from Shelton. It is a tribute of sorts to the singer's favorite Kenny Chesney tune, his 1994 single "The Tin Man." "I was a little worried at first about writing another song like that, but I told Kenny … I felt the same emotion I feel when I hear that song. I was feeling it myself, and the other two co-writers were feeling it as well," Lambert explained. "It comes from the same place, and I guess that inspired it."
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