Lyrics We're Gonna Ride Again (Commentary) - Brantley Gilbert

You know just a few minutes ago we were talking about the fact that you like to put a good mix of the good, the bad and the ugly on your albums
I know that you included some songs that you had written much further in the past
And you kinda brought 'em forward for this album and
So I'm wondering you've had a lot of good going on your life lately but not a lot of bad or ugly
Yeah
Going on this album I mean so is that or maybe some of these past songs came in or were you able to somehow dig and find the bad and the ugly
'Cause your life seems to be going pretty fantastically well right now
You know there was a little bit of both
There were few songs like We're Gonna Ride Again as a song that I wrote a while but
And it fit more of not halfway to heaven the justice I am where I'm thinking but still it didn't feel right
It's about Phil and Carrie brought that ran in front of a house force but it's also a Bucker Brotherman
And didn't know at the beginning but he ended up no one from way back he knew like my Pop and he was family across the board, we lived together
You know he and I and Jess, our guitar player
My drummer, Ben and Steve we all lived together in this
We called it the compound
Yeah
So he was family and he was so proud of what we had when it was what it was you know what I mean and
I felt like this record, this chapter, we're at the point now and I feel like the guys in the band we're all turn over new leaves and we're all inspired
So I mean there's a different time and a different place for us
I feel like everybody's got both freedom on the ground and as an organization, I feel like right now this is a time where he's really looking down where I had built at
And that song's about me you know what I mean
That's awesome
And call that bad and ugly if you want but it's a song about somebody just passed away
Yeah
But to me, I know Carrie well up to now that he is up to heaven and he is probably gettin' in trouble, all the time
Well it says in his soul
Preparing them for your arrival
Yeah
I mean 'cause this dude, there was a story back in the day that my Pop that told me
They left one time, they left to a clubhouse
It was probably 10 or 15 bikes and they got back to where they were going
Everybody was hanging out laughing and cotton up and all of a sudden somebody
Where's Carrie?
And looked up said "I couldn't find him"
And I called the clubhouse said just left
And they said, "We thought he left with y'all"
So everybody loads up and all of us back down on the road
And I got to a point on the road where they saw the last part somebody remembered him being beside 'em
And that's one thing he loved riding motorcycles but he was not very good at it
He just wouldn't pay attention and he had run off this hour something going off the road and a big cut two patch
And I said they all cut their motorcycles of the road and you could hear him laughing
I said he's all beat up and chewed the open road race up but I can hear his laugh right now like it was yesterday
He had the most obnoxious, funniest just hilarious laugh just him laughing alone was enough to crack everybody up around him
Yeah
And he was that guy
And he's the guy that everybody loves to be around and like I said he was proud of what we were when it was what it was
That's awesome
And singing what it is now
And it's a song I wrote with Mike Dekle, one of very very important person to me
One of my favourite people and also written with Jess, our late guitar player and Carrie actually had a heart attack and Jess and I were with him when he passed
Oh my gosh
Like that's how we lived together
Yeah
And we were living in Mike Dekle's house like it's old house he lived across that Lapaun famous
So it was like a family member passed on the way
You know what I mean that was a close it always has been a close knit, good to bad and ugly grew from me a lot of friction I mean there's to it act like we could sit here for days
Right
And I could tell you stories but we lost Carrie, we lost a family member
Yeah
Across the board so it's not so much the bad and ugly
It's not completely all feel good song because it does heart
Right
You know looking back no one I wish he was sitting in this room right now telling stories
Look him by and him not be in that chair you know what I mean
Yeah
Him not be in front of a house or playing shows
Yeah
That's not great but no one worries at no one will see him again makes that song that bad and ugly I think
Yeah this is called We're Gonna Ride Again from Brantley Gilbert on Big Machine Radio