Songfacts®:

• "Thought It Was Love" is a heartbreak song that pokes gently at the bruises of lost love, not with bitterness but with the quiet puzzlement of someone still trying to understand what went wrong.
• In the song, Ty Myers is feeling lonely and regretful as he struggles with daily reminders of a relationship that has ended. He concludes:
  
  Girl, I thought it was love
  Girl, I knew it was love
  I guess I didn't know what love was
  
  Myers realizes what felt like true love may have been misunderstood or one-sided.
• Like much of Myers' work, the song is rooted in plainspoken emotion, the kind that feels honest because it doesn't try too hard to impress. No pyrotechnics here. Just a man, his memory, and a beat-up Squier Stratocaster he bought for $100 from a storage unit sale.
• We don't know the identity of the heartbreaker in question, but we do know that Myers tends to write solo, often in the small hours, when life's disappointments feel especially operatic.
• The production, courtesy of Brandon Hood (who's also worked with Sam Hunt and Jimmie Allen), keeps the sound sparse and sympathetic.
• Rounding out the session at Starstruck Studios in Nashville are Tom Bukovac on electric guitar, Bruce Bouton on pedal steel, and Gordon Mote on keys.