You Should Be Here

Written by Cole Swindell with Ashley Gorley (Carrie Underwood's "Good Girl," Luke Bryan's "Crash My Party") this song is about the singer's late father, who passed away over the 2013 Labor Day weekend, when Cole was out on his radio tour. "I wrote it outside of a football stadium, believe it or not," he told Radio.com. "I lost my dad two years ago in a freak accident, and when Ashley Gorley, one of my favorite writers, brought up this title, he had to have known that's what I wanted to write." "I thought about my dad," Swindell continued. "Just all the things that I get to do. It ain't even for the folks that maybe haven't lost somebody, maybe you just miss somebody. Maybe you have family in another state, or there's those moments in life that we all get to share, and it's like if that one person was here, man, they'd freak out, they would love it."

Swindell told The Boot that he considers this to be by far his favorite song that he's written, to date. "I think that's why I moved to Nashville, is to write a song like this," he said. "Just growing up, loving '90s country music, there were songs that touched me. There were fun ones, but there were also the ones I could relate to, and I think this is going to be that song when people get to hear it."

The Michael Monaco directed music video opens with real footage of Cole Swindell calling his father in July of 2013 - just two months before the elder Swindell died - to tell him that he had signed his record deal. Throughout the rest of the clip, shots of career milestones that his dad is no longer around to witness are mixed with Swindell returning to his hometown of Glennville, Georgia and visiting his father's grave for the first time since the funeral. Swindell told reporters about the shots of him by his father's grave. "Once you see your last name in stone, I think it was finally. We didn't know if that was even going to be in the video; the cameras were way off. They gave me my time out there, but they used some of that clip, because it was so real. There's no second takes on that one. But I think it made the video more powerful … If seeing my tears or seeing me get upset helps anybody else, then that's what I'm here for."