"She Wouldn't Be Gone"

On Friday, October 7th, 2011, I watched amazingness happen in front of my eyes and in my ears.  I witnessed an unnoticed voice put on a show that was better than any entertainer I have seen.  I already blogged about him and another song he wrote, "If You'd Called Yesterday."  (Look back through the blogs and back through your memory.)  I dragged my family to this place in Nashville called "Douglas Corner" to see the incredibly talented Cory Batten.  Well, the bouncer kind of scared everyone but they got over it.  (He had at least a 3 ft beard and was well over 6 ft tall)  Anyways, I walked in and turned around to see another one of my favorite songwriters, Karyn Rochelle.  Needless to say, I felt like I died and had gone to heaven.  This place oozed with amazingness.  Subsequently, I met Karyn Rochelle and Cory Batten and told them how they've changed my life, no big deal, but they were the most down to earth, amazing people ever.  Made us respect them that much more.  Well, little did anyone that night know that the world would totally stop when Cory Batten sang.  There's people who can sing and then there are those who can sang.  Well, Cory Batten can SANG!  Like the phone book, dictionary, vowel sounds, anything...and you will stop everything you're doing and listen.  This guy needs to be taking over the country charts right now.  Anyways, this song may have re-modernized Blake Shelton's career but this introduced Mr. Cory Batten to the world.

What makes this song so different is that it's not everything someone did to win someone back, it's everything they didn't do.  We all can sit down and tell the world what we did, but I think it's the hardest to admit what we didn't do, where we went wrong, and that in the end, we are the guilty one.  Well this is like straight down a crooked road.   This is music.

FM Radio:
Singer: Blake Shelton/Cory Batten
Songwriters: Cory Batten, Jennifer Adan
Song: "She Wouldn't Be Gone"

Red roadside wild flower if I'd only picked you
Took you home set you on the counter
Oh, at least a time or two
Maybe she'd thought it through

Yellow sunset slowly dippin' down in the rear view
Oh, how she'd love to sit and watch you
I could have done that a whole lot more
If I hadn't been so stubborn
Been so selfish
Thought about her more
Thought about me less
Joked and maked her laugh
Held her when she cried
A little more that, maybe I

Wouldn't be drivin' like hell
Flyin' like crazy down the highway
Callin' everyone we know
Stoppin' any place she might be
Goin' any place she might go
Beatin' on the dash
Screamin' out her name at the windshield
Tears soakin' up my face
If I had loved her this much all along
Maybe, maybe, yeah maybe
She wouldn't be gone
She wouldn't be gone
She warned me it was comin'
Said if I didn't change
She was leavin'
I just didn't believe
She would ever really walk out
God, I believe her now
Called her mamma
Cried like a baby to her best friend
If they've seen her, they ain't sayin'
They ain't sayin
Now, I'm cursing like a fool
Prayin' it ain't too late
All I wanna do is fix my mistakes
Find her, beg her for one more try
Until then damn it I"ll

Wouldn't be drivin' like hell
Flyin' like crazy down the highway
Callin' everyone we know
Stoppin' any place she might be
Goin' any place she might go
Beatin' on the dash
Screamin' out her name at the windshield
Tears soakin' up my face
If I had loved her this much all along
Maybe, maybe, yeah maybe
She wouldn't be gone
She wouldn't be gone

I wouldn't be beatin' on the dash
Screamin' out her name at the windshield
Tears soakin' up my face
If I had loved her this much all along
Maybe, maybe, yeah maybe
She wouldn't be gone

Red roadside wild flower if I'd only picked you
Took you home set you on the counter
Oh, at least a time or two
Maybe she'd thought it through

Here's the video from that night: