Текст песни Life Changes (Commentary) - Thomas Rhett

You're listening to the Thomas Rhett Life Changes album release special
I'm talking to Thomas Rhett all about the album
And we have come to one of my absolute favorite songs on your album
I cannot stop listening to this song, it is the title track
It's Life Changes and there's such a great groove to it, but the lyrics are so perfect
And I mean, I would like to believe that you just sort of sat down
And very effortlessly scribbled this out
And yet, I find sometimes the songs that sound the simplest, you maybe had to work a little harder
So, I'm curious how simple was this song? (Yeah)
Because I mean, it is literally your life in three minutes

Yeah, this song was tough because there were more moments like that
That you have to kind of put them all on paper and be like
Well, these 20 things I felt like shaped who I am today over the last five years
And so we picked three of those and wrote three different verses about them
That I thought were the most just life-changing moments
That really I felt like one thing led to another thing and ultimately led me here
So, it's a tough song to write because when you talk about certain things of like
I had no idea what I wanted to do in college and then
You know, thank God he smacked me in the face and said, you're going to write songs
And then everyone told me, he's like, dude, you're 22, please don't get married yet

I remember that

Not in a malicious way
Just dude, your career is just starting
Like why?
Why would you do that now?

And you're so young
If you love her now, you'll love her when it's a better time (exactly)

But I just, it was just in my gut
It was like, this needs to happen now
And it did, and it completely altered my life forever
And then, you know, going on and kind of in the back of our minds
Thinking that there was something wrong with one of us because that we couldn't have children
And so then, you know, learning that, okay, well, maybe we were supposed to adopt
And that's maybe all of our children are supposed to be adopted children
And so we adopted Willa and halfway through that Lauren got pregnant
And so like, it's just so many crazy things that we kind of just followed our gut and tried to do
I guess what was the right thing in that moment
And it, you know, it led us to where we are now
So, definitely one of my favorite songs to write
And definitely probably the most personal song that I have allowed people to listen to

And it is so infectious and such an earworm
I mean, I could, you know, recite the lines after the first time I heard it
And now I, one of my favorite lines in there, where you say
She, Lauren now has her own fans and she's got a little blue check by her Instagram
Which, which was just so clever to me
I'm-, one thing that it made me think about is
Talk to me a minute about how gracefully she has managed your celebrity
And coming into her own celebrity because I mean
She seems still as one of the most unaffected, genuine, sweet people that is just taking it as it comes

Yeah, I think every time I say this, it comes across weird
But I think one of the best things about Lauren is that she truly doesn't get affected by much
Fame, she could care less about
Money she could care less about
Meeting famous people she could care less about
She's such a normal person
And I think in the back of her mind, she knows that everyone else is a normal person
Somewhere deep down inside
And so I think that the way that how she's handled all this stuff is because she truly is just like
Well, this is what's happening
You know?
And she just takes it as it comes
And I'm the opposite

Like, if there is a moment to freak out in a situation, I will freak out
If something is not going how I thought it was gonna go, I'm immediately like, what did I do wrong?
Lauren's like, babe, it's fine, like don't worry about it
Just go do the thing
The show's going to be fine
Everything's going to be fine

And so, the Lord knew that I needed somebody like that in my life
Because I don't know where I would be without her
But it's just amazing that her just being her
I think is what people just love about her, is that never wears makeup
I mean, she's always just like first thing in the morning, like, today we're eating Cheerios
You know like that kind of thing
And so I think people really just know how to relate to Lauren, so

Yeah, I love the song
I love the lyrics
And I love that it is the title track because it can be taken in so many different ways
Life changes as a noun or life changes as a verb (yeah)

And I encourage people to get to know these lyrics
Because you're going to be hearing this song, "I Have a Feeling" on the radio more than just right now
Absolutely