Kellie Pickler Named 'Dancing With the Stars' Champion
Taylor Swift Dominates at 2013 Billboard Music Awards
Beyonce Releases New Anthem, 'Grown Woman'
J. Cole Performs 'Born Sinner' on 'Late Night With Jimmy Fallon,' Reveals Competitive Spirit Against Kanye West
Blake Shelton Will Return for Season 5 of 'The Voice'
LOOK: Bank Vault Saves 22 Lives During Tornado
Blake Shelton Joins NBC in Organizing Oklahoma Tornado Benefit Concert
Killed Soldier In London Attack Identified
Carrie Underwood 'Goats' Hunter Hayes With Blown Away Tour Prank
Brave Woman Stood Down Armed London Attackers
Toby Keith Says His Hometown of Moore, Oklahoma 'Will Perservere' After Deadly Tornado
Demi Looks FANTASTIC In A Bikini
Toby Keith Returns to Help Family, Friends in Moore, Oklahoma
Surgeon's Remove Giant Hairball From Tiger
Carrie Underwood Says She's 'Queen of Awkward' in Marie Claire Interview
PHOTO: Dog Guards Dead Victim's Body After Oklahoma Tornado Disaster
Helen Flanagan Launches PETA Campaign As Only She Knows How
Man Reportedly Beheaded In Brutal Assault In London Neighborhood
Pope Francis Says All Who Do Good Are Redeemed - Atheists Included
U.S. Acknowledges Four American Citizens Killed In Drone Strikes
Singer Sues McDonald's, Claims Chicken Sandwich Incident Ruined Her Voice
Wolf Blitzer's Embarrassing Moment With Tornado Survivor
The World's Most Powerful Women
Mother Dies With Infant During Oklahoma Tornado
Help For Heroes Killing
PHOTOS: Tornado Aftermath Leaves Trail Of Destruction
NY Times Eviscerates Obama White House
White Father Allegedly Suspected Of Kidnapping Biracial Daughters
PHOTOS: Christie Brinkley Gets Back Into A Swimsuit At 59 Years Old
Who Won 'DWTS'?
WATCH: Tornado Victim Finds Dog During CBS Interview
WATCH: Mom's Emotional Reunion With Son After Tornado
Grossed Out Student Finds "Worm" In His McMuffin
Stoney Creek
The song's co-writers, David Lee Murphy and Jim Collins, who also penned Jason Aldean's No. 1 smash 'Big Green Tractor,' sat down with The Boot to talk about the day they wrote this breakthrough hit.
David Lee: It wasn't a 'riding around on my tractor idea,' [laughs] but you just get lucky sometimes, and an idea just falls out and you're fortunate to be there. That's what happened the day we wrote this song. They come in strange ways sometimes. It's never the same way twice.
Jim: The hardest part for me is finding an idea that you haven't heard before. Or if it's a title that you've heard before, you've gotta find a new angle. So you try to figure out how everybody else would write it, and then you write it another way! [laughs] It took us a couple of days to write this song, and we spent most of the day just trying to find an idea that was even interesting, because we write together so much during the week. Then David finally came up with the line, 'are you gonna kiss me or not?' I said, 'Are we gonna do this or not?' Then I grabbed my guitar and started singing, 'We were sittin' up there on your mama's roof, talkin' 'bout everything under the moon.' From there, we just let it take us where it wanted to go.
David Lee: The rest of the verses just fell out after that. We had a lot of fun with it. I thought one of the coolest lines we came up with was, 'It was the best dang kiss that I'd ever had, except for that long one after that.' I remember thinking that was such a cool line! When I'm writing, I draw from old stuff, personally. So every time I write a song like this, I always go back in my head to the old stuff; things that I did when I was younger.
Jim: As we were coming up with our lyrics, we could see the movie in our head, what we were writing about, and then painted that picture, best we could. A lot of times you can paint the picture, but not get the emotion in there. You get so clever with pictures, you forget what the meaning of the song is. But the whole movie was playing out as we were going with this song. Originally, in my head, I didn't think they were gonna get married, but the song just kind of felt like it needed to go that way. And boy, I'm glad we went with it! [laughs]
David Lee: We were both excited about this song, after writing it. It was the only song we wrote that day. We were so happy. Jim and I wrote 'Big Green Tractor' together, and when you write those songs, you go home that day, and you go, 'Wow, that's a hit!' When you write every day, it's fun ... but you don't write a good song everyday.
Jim: When you're writing songs five days a week, it's really a matter of just keeping your pencil sharp. Because you write a lot of songs that do nothing and there's nothing to them. But what it does is it keeps you sharp. So when you do get an idea like 'Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not,' you know what to do. We got real lucky with Thompson Square. They're husband and wife, and it was kind of their story -- how they fell in love, even though I don't know if it was exactly up on the roof! [laughs] But it was a love story, and they got hold of it. When we wrote it, I thought it was a good song. But when I heard their record, the way they cut it, I thought, 'Man! This could be a hit!'
