Songfacts®:

• Granger Smith wrote this song during a crossroads in his music career. Nobody had paid any attention to his last album, the gigs weren't coming in and he was struggling to make ends meet. He recalled to Billboard magazine: "I was driving back to College Station following a show, and I realized that I had never written a song about or for Texas A&M (University). I thought about what it meant to be an Aggie (Texas A&M student), and the traditions. If I did that, and gave it to the right organization, that would be something to be proud of.
  
  I wrote ['We Bleed Maroon'], and did a quick guitar vocal. I was behind on the rent, and didn't even have gas money. I emailed the song to someone at 'Aggie Muster' -- an event held each April that celebrates those that have died that were Aggies.
  
  The next day, I was driving around, and it came on the radio. I ended up re-recording it, and it blew up. I coupled it with four other songs from the EP, and right off the bat, I sold a thousand. I borrowed some money from Dad, and we printed up more, and people were buying it. I learned for the first time about the power of one song, and what it could do. That saved me."