Lyrics I've Been There Before (Commentary) - Brantley Gilbert

This is one of a heck of an album
26 cuts and we're in the home stretch
We're playing you the final five demo versions of the songs
That Brantley has on the deluxe edition of the album
And you know, I know that we're telling people they're demos
And you know, kind of, explain what that's all about

You know, they're not the cleaned, uh, perfect (studio versions)
Right, right, there's imperfections and, uh
And another thing I'm proud of on this record
Is that they're imperfections on record itself
That makes a record of a record to me (sure)
It's like listening to an old Skynyrd record, like

String slides and things, they take out these days, or most of (yeah)
Those imperfections are very much there
If I got off-key a little bit, from here to there
Then-dress it 'til it's perfect, you know what I mean? (Yeah)
It's human (gave it character), yeah, it's real

Well, this is called "I've Been There Before"
Another demo from Brantley Gilbert on Big Machine Radio