I am sitting in Aaron Lewis's backyard not by myself
I'm actually here with Aaron and we're going through his brand new album state
I'm in getting the answers that only he can give us about each song
so the next song that I want to talk about is can't take back and I think that you and I have talked about in
The past that a lot of stained songs
Could have been country songs with a different
Instrumentation and a different production and arrangement and to me this was one of the more aggressive
Songs vocally on this album compared to where you your voice sat with some of the other ones and I almost felt like if
Stained music and Hank jr. Had a baby. It would be can't take back
Well, what's interesting about that is that that was
until I came into
The scenario and into the picture with that not being one of the songs that I fully wrote. Okay, it was
already a song
and
I was interested in that song a Dan Tominski and and I redeemed wrote that song together and
What's funny? Is that the aggressive thing is me going after Dan?
Tominski's very easily sung vocal lines. Hmm and me having to go after them because
It wasn't so easy for me to sing those. Okay, just
Effortless vocals that he puts out there. So yeah, that was me. Just trying to
Get it
Well, I felt like you're going after it
I mean it because a lot of your your songs
I feel like your your voice kind of just lays in this pocket and it's very
Kind of you know old-style country sort of laid back and with this one. I felt a little bit more
Angst a little bit more energy and one of the things that I did with this song that was key to
Making it fit and work with the rest of the record was when I first heard it. It was
You're the last cuss word that cuts like a razor
You're the first sip of sin from an old brown sack and I was like, uh-uh. I
I'm
the last you know and that changed the song quite drastically and
And my thought process is it's always better to point the finger at yourself in a song than it is to point it at somebody
else
well
I mean you do seem to be taking a lot of I don't know if I want to call it credit or blame in
all of these songs and sort of owning
Both fits. Yeah, so it makes sense to me that you would want to rearrange it that way based on
The whole body of work and and where these songs seem to be coming from perspective wise
So I say now that you know Aaron's take on the song and my two cents
I say let's go ahead and play can't take back. This is new from Aaron Lewis on big machine radio