Songfacts®:

• This country chart-topper was a bit of an anomaly for Tippin, who mostly made his living off of blue collar anthems and patriotic songs, not ballads about unrequited love. "We'd never done anything like that," Tippin explained in a Songfacts interview. "The record label, I've got to credit those guys for that. They're the ones who really told me, 'Hey, man, we just feel like there's something we can do here different. Just try to expand this thing.'
  
  And thank goodness I had a great producer like Steve Gibson. Steve said, 'You know, Aaron, You've always sung in a pretty high key. Let's drop this down a few notches and see what your voice sounds like down in the bottom.' So we did, and it was a whole new Aaron Tippin. It really worked great."
• This was written by a trio of songwriters that didn't include Tippin, who usually co-writes his songs. Jan Leyers, a Belgian musician and former member of Soulsister, wrote the ballad along with voice actress Sally Dworsky (The Lion King, Shrek) and country singer Paul Jefferson.
• In the black-and-white music video, directed by Michael Salomon, Tippin is a carpenter who pines for a married woman while working at her home. The clip peaked at #1 on CMT's Top 12 Countdown.