Songfacts®:

• "Don't leave leavin' to me," Kameron Marlowe pleads in this song, asking his girl to break it off because he doesn't have the gumption to do it himself, and he knows she's been cheating on him. He wrote it with the songwriter Kyle James.
  
  "The guy I was writing it with came in and had this title, 'Leavin' to Me,'" Marlowe told Pandora. "I didn't know what it meant but I loved the play on words. So we sat and wrote, and he told me about what he was going through, and I empathized with him because I was going through a breakup as well. I wasn't on the side he was with the whole cheating thing, but I did empathize with losing someone that I loved."
• "Leavin' To Me" is on brand for Kameron Marlowe, whose songs often deal with drinking, heartache, or both. The song that made his name in Nashville is "Giving You Up," which earned him a deal with Sony Music Nashville. That's a very personal song about a girl who broke his heart. Other breakup songs in his catalog include "Sober As A Drunk" and "Hungover."
• The song is part of Marlowe's self-titled EP released in 2020 as he was getting his start in Nashville. "'Giving You Up' was the first song I fully wrote, but 'Leavin' to Me' was the very first song I wrote when I moved into town," he explained. "That song is really special to me because I was still in that breakup mode of not really knowing what was next."
  
  "It's a special song for me," he added. "It's like my stamp from Nashville: I did it. It was a fulfilling moment for me."