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If I lived here, it was an open writing session with Shane and Josh,and who's got an idea?And Jess was the one that said,I might have brought up a sign that you saw, right, if you lived here.You see those apartments that are renting.It says, if you lived here, you'd be home right now.And we kind of had a chuckle just like this.Some poor * wrote that and didn't copyright it.Shane and Josh kind of jumped in on it right away,and If I Lived Here became a song about a guywho was a frequent patron, basically part of the furniture of a bar.And again, it was one of those songs that came quickbecause we were having a lot of fun writing itand describing the way that the bar looks.Maybe this is what everyone does still.We know what a Midland song should sound like,but when we're writing songs,probably maybe because there's three of us,but we're always referencing music that we like,and it's hard for me to imagine.Like Glenn and Don writing an Eagles song like five records into thereand going like, you know, this sounds like Steely Dan or something.You want them in your brain to be so comfortable in their own music,but yet we still reference material as we're writing it and recording it.And I remember going, thinking to myself,wow, this is the Alabama song that we've been covering for years,and now it's our very own,and was really excited when we were getting to the end,and now we're kind of writing it.I think we might have even modulated it up in a key at the end or something like that.It takes a double time tempo.It's just a lot of fun, and it happens to check two boxes.One is I feel like it's incredibly inclusive, a song,so a lot of people can really latch on to it,making it potentially something that would be great on radio.I don't know.But also, and this doesn't always happen to those songs,it strikes me as a song that would be really fun to play liveand have a reactionary element to it.So I'm really excited to put that song out and to figure out.It's a harmony song all the way through, right?A lot of harmonies on it, so that's also a fun mode for us to figure out.I mean, Audios Cowboy is like my nightmare when it comes to it.There's so many high parts on it, and who knows where it'll land for this one.But we used to cover Alabama.God, that was a long time ago.