Songfacts®:

• "The Night (Part 2)," released in 2022, is a sequel to Morgan Wade's 2019 song "The Night." In the original, she explains how alcoholism brought out her demons and made her suicidally depressed. Part 2 checks in a few years later and finds her still sober, but struggling to keep it together. She's doing everything she can to keep the bottle at bay - antidepressants, fitness, self-help books - but she knows a relapse can happen any time if she's not vigilant. "Johnny's still callin' me," she sings, a callback to "The Night" and the line "Johnnie called me late last nigh and I told Mr. Walker just go home," a reference to Johnnie Walker whisky.
• Morgan Wade was in a very different place professionally from when she released "The Night" in 2019 to when she put out this sequel in 2022. "The Night" was her first single as a solo artist, released independently. It gradually found a following on the internet and led to a record deal with Arista Nashville, which released Wade's album Reckless in 2021. The album got great reviews and moved Wade up the bill at festivals, which also put more pressure on her, straining her sobriety. She managed to keep it together and take fans along for the journey in her very confessional songwriting style.
• "The Night" and "The Night (Part 2)" were released on a single in 2022, with "The Night" also included on the deluxe edition of Wade's Reckless album.
• Wade wrote this song with Sadler Vaden and Mike Wise. Vaden, who also produced the song and played the electric guitar, was an early supporter of Wade and co-wrote "The Night" with her. He's a guitarist in Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit.
• Music videos for "The Night (Part 2)" and its prequel were released in 2022 to accompany the single. Directed by P.R. Brown, they show Wade singing as a series of chaotic images shot in New York City flash by.