Текст песни Renegades (Commentary) - Thomas Rhett

This is Big Machine Radio
And we are going through all the songs on Thomas Rhett's new album, Life Changes

And track 12 on here is called Renegades and to me
This is just kinda the quintessential, good girl falls for the bad boys, song (totally, yeah)

Uh, so tell me about the inspiration
I-I don't know that it's necessarily your story (mm-hm) so where did this come from?

This is uh, one of the few songs that I wrote out in Malibu with a bunch of L.A. writers
Who, when you get into a room like that
You never know if you're going to write something for Wiz Khalifa
Or you're gonna write a traditional country song
You just never know what you're gonna write (right)

And we were in there and my buddy John Ryan
Uh, who's a fantastic songwriter was just playing these, like, big loud power chord
Like, Tom Petty chords, if you will
And we just started, like, you know
Singing that like super singalong choruses in the song and
The line that I love the most is uhm, "Small town cliche bit like you and me"

And so like you're telling the story of these two young lovers who
The dad hates the guy; cliche story, but really you're talking about yourselves
Uh, you're older now, but you get to look at your kids and be like
"I really don't want you to go, but you should go" uh, kinda thing (yeah)

In an age of love that just like kinda renegade, reckless, wild being young love story
Uh. that-that, just feels like a stadium rock song if you will