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The song is a mid-tempo ballad in which the narrator realizes that his former lover has just gotten married. He's heard that she cried during the ceremony, which makes him think of all the "hell" he put her through when they were together, thinking that nothing was wrong with her, because she "never cried in front of im. Bobby Pinson wrote the song with Keith at Keith's house in mid-2007. According to Pinson, he sat down at Keith's piano and the two started working on the song there. According to Keith, it was the first time that he ever sat down at a piano to write a song, and he thought that it "changed everything. It brought a whole new approach to the melody."Critical reception
The song received a "thumbs down" review from the country music site Engine 145. Reviewer Brady Vercher stated that the "lyric fleshes out too many irrelevant details that end up creating all sorts of logical fallacies", and that the song was generally over-produced. He also considered it derivative of fellow artist Tracy Lawrence's 1994 hit " I See It Now", which also features a storyline based on a man's realization of "all the hell" he has put a former lover through. Kevin John Coyne of Country Universe gave the song an A-minus, saying that Keith "sings the hell out of" the song, but criticizing the "arena rock" production of the chorus.Chart performance
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{{Toby Keith 2000s singles 2008 singles 2008 songs Country ballads 2000s ballads Toby Keith songs Songs written by Bobby Pinson Songs written by Toby Keith Show Dog-Universal Music singles