"You Should Probably Leave" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter

Chris Stapleton Christopher Alvin Stapleton (born April 15, 1978) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. He was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and grew up in Staffordsville, Kentucky. In 2001, Stapleton moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to ...

, it was released on May 17, 2021, as the second single from his fourth studio album '' Starting Over''. The song was co-written by

Ashley Gorley Ashley Glenn Gorley (born April 29, 1977) is an American songwriter, publisher, and producer from Danville, Kentucky, who is based in Nashville, Tennessee. Gorley has written 60 number 1 songs and has over 300 songs recorded by artists including ...

Chris DuBois Charles Christopher DuBois is a songwriter and music publisher based out of Nashville, Tennessee. DuBois began his music career as ASCAP Nashville Director of Membership in 1993. He left ASCAP in 1999 to form Sea Gayle Music with business partne ...

and Stapleton, who also produced the track with

Dave Cobb Dave Cobb (born July 9, 1974) is an American record producer based in Nashville, Tennessee, best known for producing the work of Chris Stapleton, Brandi Carlile, John Prine, Sturgill Simpson, Jason Isbell, The Highwomen and Rival Sons . Cobb i ...

. No official music video was made for the song.

Background

The song had been written back in 2014. In a clip from October 2014, Stapleton was seen performing in

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on a simple stage, and his wife Morgane joined in.

Content

"You Should Probably Leave" describes a story about an on-again, off-again couple who cannot seem to keep themselves from coming back to one another, even though they know their story will not end well.

Critical reception

Kevin John Coyne of website ''Country Universe'' wrote that the song has "no discernable melody, the storyline is dull as dishwater, and the tempo is excruciatingly slow." The song won the

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in 2022.

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References

{{Chris Stapleton 2021 singles 2021 songs Chris Stapleton songs Songs written by Ashley Gorley Songs written by Chris Stapleton Songs written by Chris DuBois Song recordings produced by Dave Cobb Mercury Nashville singles