Songfacts®:

• On this haunting Country-Soul number, Adkins shows his vulnerable side when he sings about not being able to outrun that past love. He told CMT News about the background to this song: "I made a statement one time at the very beginning of my career, and I said that when I sing a song about heartache, I'm not singing about somebody giving back my senior ring. I'm talking about it from the most devastating, serious point of view. I've been through just a horrendous divorce [from his first wife], and I can say this without fear of upsetting my [current] wife. She knows I love her, and everything's cool. But when my first wife and I got divorced, I was devastated. I mean, I was heartbroken. I mean totally, and I didn't ever think I'd get past it, really. I mean, there were days when I didn't think I was simply going to live through that heartache. It manifested itself into physical pain. I could feel it. It hurt that bad, and I just couldn't get away from it. So when I recorded this song, I just went back there in my head and what that felt like. That's where this song comes from."
• Adkins sung this song in the style of a Sinatra-type crooner. He explained on the album's promotional materials: "I'm not afraid to do stuff like that, and we've done stuff like that live, we've just never recorded that starkly. I told (producer) Frank (Rogers) that on this one I wanted the vocal to do the work, and carry the entire load, that's the way I want to cut this and put my voice out there and let the chips fall where they may."
• The song was covered by husband and wife duo Thompson Square on their 2013 album, Just Feels Good.