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When you fall in love, you tend to take advice from your significant other, even when you're not quite sure they know what they're talking about. Case in point: Carrie Underwood and her new fiancé, hockey player Mike Fisher, were reading the 'Purpose Driven Life,' a self-help book and 40-day spiritual journey exercise by Rick Warren, together when he suggested she write a song called 'Temporary Home,' which happens to be her current single. "They're not exactly easy words to sing when you think ... 'Temporary Home,'" Carrie tells The Boot. "It doesn't sound like a song to me. But I bounced [the idea] around in my head for a couple of days, 'Maybe I can incorporate this somewhere. I don't know.' I was getting ready to go in to write with Luke Laird and Zac Maloy, and it just hit me like a ton of bricks, just a flood of words and stories. And all of a sudden, I thought of a little boy in a foster situation, and he knows where he's going, and the place where he is isn't where he should be, but he'll get there someday."
The Oklahoma beauty says the song actually had a few different words prior to recording it. "Stuff kind of changed around and never ended up the way it was until we were done with it," she explains. "Then it was like, 'Oh my gosh! This is pretty amazing!'"
'Temporary Home' is the second single from Carrie's album, 'Play On,' and of the 13 songs on the project, seven were co-written by the singer. As a result, she feels the album is a truer representation of who she is than her previous two discs. "Somebody can listen to it to get more of a sense of who I am, and they can listen to certain things and [think], 'This is really sincere, this is really emotional, and this ... she was a writer on it, this comes from something that is deep inside of her heart.' And I do feel like people can get to know me a lot better from 'Play On.'"
Fans will get to know even more about Carrie when she hits the road in March for her 'Play On' tour.
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