Bullets In The Gun

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1. Bullets In The Gun Toby Keith/Rivers Rutherford
When we started writing this idea, which I'd had for a while, we thought we would do five or six verses and just tag the last line of each verse with "bullets in the gun." But then we came up with that fantastic chorus, which is just so strong. Growing up in Oklahoma, playing shows in New Mexico and Texas and being around the real cowboy thing, I've always been a huge fan of the Wild West. We've modernized it here - the guy's not riding a horse, he's riding a motorcycle. He's lost and lonely and riding around trying to find his place in the world. And when he finds it, she's a renegade just like him. He's got that cold place in his soul, that missing piece. And she's holding it. They're soul mates. He really doesn't commit the robbery, but he loves her so much he lets her do it. She's tired of being treated bad, so that's her jailbreak. She gets out. The cards are on the table and the bullets in the gun is Wild Bill Hickok. There's no more gambling, no more bluffing; it's do or die and we're settling it. I never thought it could be a single, but with the response we've gotten from radio, it looks like it's going to be. 2. Somewhere Else Toby Keith/Bobby Pinson
My favorite track on the album. As a songwriter, it's really clever, wordy and has a lot of craftsmanship ... and I really love those kinds of songs. I can just picture that guy walking downtown in his broke-down shoes. I've seen people walk 'til they wore that place off the back of their heels. He takes a back seat at a front door table ... then we flip it in the second verse and the neon light he'd been trying to get to becomes the front porch light. He's lonely and cold, eating his cold TV dinner. He's a Cubs fan, and they lose all the time, too. So he's the biggest loser in the world. As light as the song is, it's a serious issue. A very different song for me. 3. Trailerhood Toby Keith
I was riding my motorcycle and had a couple of dudes with me. We were in an old neighborhood out in the country where I used to live. And there's a trailer park out there. Somebody said, "Hey, let's go eat." We're starting to turn around and I realize they've put railroad tracks in and blocked the street I wanted to take. So I was going to say, "Let's go in the trailer park" or, "Let's go in this neighborhood and turn around." But instead I said, "Let's go in this trailerhood." And one of the guys said, "The old trailerhood, huh?"
I lived in one for a couple of years when I was 19 after I moved off my parents' farm. It was a real nice, gated trailer park with a pool. I had a lot of fun. There were always guys drinking beer, always a poker game and kids playing ball in the streets. Everybody in my area is a Dallas Cowboys fan, so they're always getting together to watch the games. Then you just go white trash on it with the tattoos, farmer tans, NASCAR and rodeo. Everyone knows trailer parks take a beating from tornadoes, so when you talk to people in L.A. they want to know how someone could live in one. What they don't understand is that tornadoes are exciting. Unless it's bulls-eyed right for you, everybody is outside watching them go by. So I brought all these thoughts together and wrote it by myself over Christmas break. I told the guys when we cut it that I wanted to be real original and organic with it; the bass drum going and the bass right there in a simple, marching band kind of feel. 4. In A Couple Of Days Toby Keith/Bobby Pinson
Someone will call you and say, "Hey, can you help me move?" And you'll tell them you've got some stuff on your plate, but to hit you back in a couple of days and you'll let them know. So the idea was to tie that into a breakup. The girl leaves you and calls back the next day to check in and see how you're doing. Are you alright? Hell, he has no idea. He's still in a stupor. You just hit me with this yesterday, so call me back when the swelling goes down. I've had my ass whipped, I should know something in a couple of days. So attaching that idea to something didn't quite fit is the clever little twist we put on this song. That phrase ordinarily isn't something you would ever apply to the end of a relationship. 5. Think About You All Of The Time Toby Keith
This is another one I wrote over Christmas break. I absolutely loved the melody, but the idea is probably something I've said or heard and it stuck with me. I can't remember where or why, but I just thought it was funny to say, "Yeah, you're gone and I don't miss you too much, but I think about you all the time." Which is basically the same thing. He's willing to admit he heard she's in town with a handsome man, but says he didn't catch it all. He caught it second-hand. Well, of course it was second-hand if you heard it from somebody. There's a lot of that kind of doubling back in the song. I wrote one years ago that went, "We'd still be together, but she left me." Well, of course! Those kinds of things crack , ISBN13: B003ZHQVI0 ISBN10: B003ZHQVI0 Material Type: audioCD