Brad Paisley co-wrote this song with Smith Ahnquist, Brent Anderson, Chris DuBois and Mike Ryan. It finds Paisley reminiscing about life's lasts: the final time he spent the day on the lake with his grandfather, the last ball thrown at an old family pet, the end of the bad haircuts - "[tell] Supercuts, 'Let's leave it long in the back.'"
Paisley explained the song's background during a private screening of the Love and War visual album: "I've got two little boys. Somebody said, 'Can you still hold your oldest?' I said, 'No. He's too big.' They said, 'When was the last time you held him?' and I didn't remember. There was just a point when you didn't pick him up anymore because it hurt your back. And that song is — daily, I'm realizing stuff that it's like, 'Oh, that's it for that.'"
Paisley recalls the last chance he got to see some of his musical heroes onstage such as Little Jimmy Dickens and Glenn Frey. He told Billboard magazine: "There's a lot of personal things in the song 'Last Time for Everything,' like Little Jimmy on the Opry stage and seeing Glenn Frey at The Forum."
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