Songfacts®:

• Owen Beverly grew up Mississippi but started his musical career in Charleston, South Carolina. After about a decade recording as a solo artist, he formed INDIANOLA around 2015 with Michael Trent from the group Shovels & Rope.
  
  "Tired Of Being Told" is one of their most popular songs. It finds Beverly trying to talk some sense into a girl who's headed down a path of destruction, but it's no use - she's tired of being told.
• Beverly's upbringing came to bear in this song. He told Songfacts: "When I was writing this batch of INDIANOLA songs, I was heavily influenced by early rock and roll and the simplicity of the music and lyrics. Being from Mississippi, I love how impactful Delta blues music was on the birth of rock and pop music, from The Beatles to Buddy Holly. Sometimes in my writing I'm honoring an era, taking a genre from the past and making it my own."
• By this time, Beverly had been all over Europe touring a guitarist for Oh Land, a Danish singer who got some attention in 2010 with her songs "Sun Of A Gun" and "Wolf & I" (co-written with Beverly). This helped nudge him out of his comfort zone and make him feel free to explore a blues-influenced song like this one. "I've had so many friends that have had early on success in a narrow lane, and it's hard for them to get out of that," he told Songfacts. "For me, I've scored music for films, I've went on tour with big bands as a guitar, bass, and keyboard player. I've enriched my life in a way that I wonder if that could have been constricted by early on success with one song or one type of sound."