Songfacts®:

• Dan Smyers penned this sweet piano ballad with his frequent writing partner Jordan Reynolds and singer-songwriter Dave Barnes. It's a simple love song where Dan + Shay tell their romantic partner how much she means to them.
• When writing "You," Smyers drew on the unembellished '90s tunes of Alan Jackson and Brooks & Dunn. "I got into a nerd phase listening to those because they were so open and everything was sitting in the right place," he told Billboard. "There's just some magic in that minimalism."
• Dan Smyers co-produced the track with Scott Hendricks. The instrumentation is by:
  
  Electric guitar: Derek Wells
  Acoustic guitar: Bryan Sutton
  Bass: Jimmie Lee Sloas
  Drums and percussion: Nir Z
  Piano and Hammond B3 organ: Gordon Mote
  Backing vocals: Jason Eskridge, Kyla Jade, Robert Bailey, Samson White, Vicki Hampton and Wendy Moten
• Dan + Shay recorded "You" for their 2021 Good Things album. By the following year, it had taken off in the wedding circuit. "We've had big wedding songs, 'From the Ground Up' and 'Speechless,' but this one, our DMs, every weekend, it's so crazy," Smyers told Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1. "We see so many people saying, 'This was our first dance,' or, 'This was the song in our wedding.'"
• Shay Mooney thinks "You" picks up where "Speechless" left off. "For us, I feel like this is kind of 'Speechless' part two," he told Taste of Country Nights' Evan Paul. "'Speechless' was about seeing your wife walk down the aisle for the first time and that moment, and this is that second part. This is forever love. This is down the road of, 'I've got you and only you for the rest of our life.'"