![]() ![]() ![]() For full video interviews with all of our subjects, visit Pool (Drank)" is one of the standout tracks in Kendrick Lamar's second full-length LP, good kid, m.A.A.d city. In partnership with Nashville Songwriters Association International, the "Story Behind the Song" video interview series features Nashville-connected songwriters discussing one of their compositions. The stories are amazing, and it’s been a blessing.” About the series So many great things have happened to both of us through this song. I don’t know if I’ve ever said this, but I am thankful for that accident! Haha! Is there anything else you want to say about this song that I didn’t already ask? NT: Lana said that Wendell called and said he was looking for the a****** that hit his truck!īH: So that resulted in you meeting? Wow. WM: I called that number, and it was Lana so I was like, "What in the world?" I left a note on the window, and he already knew Lana! He was in a vocal booth so he didn’t hear me. I went inside all the studios to find out who owned a blue Ford Ranger. He backed into my truck and knocked the front grill out of it and left a note! WM: He was in one studio singing, and I was in another (nearby studio) singing. NT: I want to say it was '93? It’s right around '92 or '93. This morning when (my wife) Lana and I were having coffee, I don’t know why it crossed my mind, but I was laying in bed and I asked Lana, "Do you remember what year it was that I backed into Wendell’s truck?"īH: So it was literally a wreck?!” (Laughing) How did that all evolve? How did you two form this unspoken partnership?” You get the negative things like that where someone is wishing for that and the ones where it actually brought them together.īH: As a songwriter duo, you obviously have chemistry, but I just look forward to what comes out of you two being in a writers’ room. WM: Just that she always wanted her dad to feel that way about her. And then she just started bawling on my shoulder.īH: I’ve seen that happen time and time again when I’ve seen you perform this song. I remember playing the Bluebird one time and maybe a 24-year old girl comes up at the end, and starts telling me the first time she heard that song, she pulled off on the side of the road because she was thinking about her dad. WM: We’ve had so many stories from so many people. It starts off, like you said, with a guy learning that his girlfriend is expecting, and his first thought is a selfish one: "There goes my life." And by the end of the song, he’s spent a lifetime with the daughter, and she goes to leave and he thinks, "There goes my life." It was a complete and beautiful twist on what the hook (in that song) means. I can’t imagine the stories you must hear about this song. I ask this on almost every episode, (but) I don’t know that I’ve ever asked it for something more poignant. I want to go back a little bit, Wendell, and thank you for sharing one of the most personal stories behind a song I’ve ever known. Maybe a year later, he found out about it and brought this idea up again on my front porch.īH: It becomes a seven-week number one. Anyway, we started this idea, Neil and I, on his back porch and just let it sit. And the other was a baby, that’s the (child with) blue eyes and bouncy curls, Emma. I had a session booked with Neil (the next day), and Neil has a little girl who just started school. She would have been 18, you know? I just started thinking about this idea, and we didn’t get anything done because the whole time I am thinking about this idea. It’s her birthday, and that idea comes to me. Fast forward 18 years in Nashville, sitting at a red light. We had this little girl, and she passed away within eight or nine months. That happened to me just right out of high school. Wendell Mobley: The front part of the song talks about where the girl tells the boy she’s pregnant. Neil Thrasher: If you want specific dates and times, you are talking to the wrong boys!(Laughing) Take us back! Do you remember the day you wrote "There Goes My Life?” Bart Herbison: The great Neil Thrasher and amazing Wendell Mobley. ![]()
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