The Only One Who Gets Me

Album: The Driver (2016)
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  • Lady Antebellum's Charles Kelley wrote this song about his wife Cassie McConnell for his The Driver solo album. The couple wed in late June 2009, but this is the first time he has written a song specifically for his longtime partner. "I went in to write with Nathan Chapman one day," Kelley recalled to The Boot. "We started two other ideas, and I just felt like I was chasing something. He goes, 'What have you never written?' I said, 'Honestly, I've never written a song about my wife that was just my story. It's always been a little bit of Hillary [Scott]'s, a little bit of Dave [Haywood]'s, a little bit of mine, a little bit of whoever else we're writing with.' He said, 'I want you to be the guy who's leading the charge, lyrically, so it's exactly your story.'"

    Kelley added that the song embodies everything he loves about Cassie. "I've got a lot of little quirks and moments that my wife, she knows exactly what to say and how to handle me," he said, "'cause I can be hard to handle."

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