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| Format = [[Music download|Digital download]]
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| Genre = {{hlist|[[Country music|CountryPop]]|[[countryPop rockRock]]}}
| Length = {{Duration|m=2|s=51}}
| Label = [[Capitol Records Nashville|Capitol Nashville]]
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==Content==
The song is an upbeat [[countryCountry rockP]] song with "brash kick drum, thumping bass, and crunchy electric guitar riffs".<ref name="cw"/> Lyrically, it is about "commitment to love and sticking with it through the ups and downs".<ref name="cw"/> All three members of Lady Antebellum co-wrote the song with [[Josh Kear]], and co-produced it with [[Nathan Chapman (record producer)|Nathan Chapman]].<ref name="toc"/> Kear told ''[[Nash Country Weekly]]'' magazine that he had a track started for a writing session with the band, and when he presented it to them, co-lead singer [[Charles Kelley]] "hit on the verse melody pretty quickly, and the verses were all four of us throwing in ideas until the lyric matched the intensity of the track."<ref name="story"/>
 
The main riff is played on a Woodrow, an Appalachian instrument manufactured only in [[Asheville, North Carolina]], which is described as having a sound "halfway between a dulcimer and a banjo."<ref name="story">{{cite journal|last=Conaway|first=Alanna|date=31 August 2015|title=Behind the Song: Road Warriors|journal=Nash Country Weekly|volume=22|issue=35|pages=54-55}}</ref> Kear chose to use the instrument in the song after buying one in Asheville. Dan Williams, who invented the Woodrow, played the instrument with Lady Antebellum when they performed the song at the [[Country Music Association]] telecast on April 19, 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.citizen-times.com/story/entertainment/2015/04/13/new-lady-antebellum-single-features-asheville-made-woodrow-instrument/25709321/|title=New Lady Antebellum single features Asheville-made Woodrow instrument|last=Patrick|first=Emily|date=14 April 2015|work=The Citizen-Times|accessdate=30 August 2015}}</ref>