Why's It Feel So Long

Album: Defying Gravity (2009)
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Songfacts®:

  • Keith Urban married the actress Nicole Kidman in 2006. Judging by this song, which finds him missing her the moment she leaves for the airport, he was still smitten in 2009 when it was released.

    Urban told Roughstock: "My wife was going to the airport and I found myself calling within a very short time frame, she had just left. Because I was in the zone of writing, I wrote about that situation. It took no time to write, and I put it aside, but this song kept coming back to me."
  • Keith Urban does a lot of collaborating, but he wrote this song by himself. It came to him very quickly. It's the only song on the Defying Gravity album he wrote himself.

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