Don't Back Up, Don't Back Down

The Only Way I Know

Jason Aldean Featuring Luke Bryan & Eric Church

     One of my all time favorite songs off of Jason Aldean's new album 'Night Train', is 'The Only Way I Know' by Jason Aldean with Luke Bryan and Eric Church. Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, and Eric Church are my top three favorite country music singers. I've seen Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan twice in concert, and I've seen Eric Church three times in concert. I love watching them all perform, and seeing that they have a song out together made me really excited to listen to it. The first time I listened to it, I loved it and it's the only song that I have been listening to for the past week now, I know I'll end up getting tired of it soon because of listening to it so much, but it's stuck in my head all the time because I'm always listening to it.

    This song is about growing up in a small farm town and working on a farm. This is the only way of life that they were taught and brought up to do, and they were raised on a farm and learned to work hard. There's a line that goes "Nobody really seemed to care that we were living in the middle of nowhere, we just figured that's how it was and everybody else was just like us, soaking in the rain, baking in the sun, don't quit 'til the job get's done". This just proves that they were brought up to learn this type of life and didn't know about anything else. Also, one of my favorite lines in this song is "Don't back up, don't back down". Which is simple, but says a lot as an overall quote. 

    At the CMA Awards hosted in Nashville, Aldean, Bryan, and Church opened the show by performing this song, which was surprisingly really good considering that they just learned their parts and how to play this song on the guitar the morning of the show. The thing I like about these artists is that they sound just as good live as they do on their CD's, and I really like that about them as artists, and the song sounded the same as it did on the CD, and you could tell they weren't faking it either. They added different harmonies to the chorus and changed up their parts of the song a little bit, which was kind of cool. I really liked seeing them perform this song, and overall I think this song has a really cool and unique message to it.

"The Only Way I Know" Lyrics

Well I grew up in one of them old farm towns

Where they hit it hard till the sun goes down

Nobody really seemed to care that we were living in the middle of nowhere

We just figured that’s how it was

And everyone else was just like us

Soaking in the rain baking in the sun

Don’t quit till the job gets done

That’s the only way I know

Don’t stop till everything’s gone

Straight ahead never turn round

Don’t back up, don’t back down

Full throttle wide open

You get tired, you don’t show it

Dig a little deeper when you think you can’t dig no more

That’s the only way I know

That old red dirt the first thing you learn

You don’t get nothing that you don’t earn

Humble pride that I grew up on

You find out just how bad you want it

Sun in our eyes backs to the fences

Didn’t know the odds were against us

Hit the wall smoking and spinning

Still wasn’t thinking ‘bout nothing but winning

That’s the only way I know

Don’t stop till everything’s gone

Straight ahead never turn round

Don’t back up, don’t back down

Full throttle wide open

You get tired, you don’t show it

Dig a little deeper when you think you can’t dig no more

That’s the only way I know

Maybe there’s another path that will get you there a little bit faster,

But I’m sticking with the one inside of me.

That’s the only way I know

Don’t stop till everything’s gone

Straight ahead never turn round

Don’t back up, don’t back down

Full throttle wide open

You get tired, you don’t show it

Dig a little deeper when you think you can’t dig no more

That’s the only way I know 

Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan & Eric Church Perform at the CMA Awards