2. “Wanted” (Al Anderson, Sharon Vaughn):

“Wanted is a prime example of wanting to be with someone who wants you for who you are, and not who they think you should be. It seems like in my personal experience—but also watching friends and people that I know—they're in a relationship and everything is marvelous, but slowly, the woman's trying to make the man something he's not, or vice versa. Really, everybody wants to be wanted for just who they are. They don't wanna have to change to make somebody happy, and that's why I like that song. “Plus, I love the rhyme scheme. Not many people can take a phrase like 'ulterior motive' and use it in a song and actually make it work. That's why I never read the lyric sheet before I listen to the song.”

3. “Go Slow” (Tammy Cochran):

“We call it 'The Cigarette Song,' for obvious reasons. “When you first fall in love, you have all these emotions in your mind, in your heart, and you don't know how to express them, because there's never one word that's strong enough to tell somebody how much you love them. I guess I tried to do it with this song. “To me, the song is more about the emotional side of love than it is the physical side of love. It just ended up sounding like it's about the physical side. But I was trying to put my heart in my pen, and that's how it came out.”

4. “What Kind Of Woman Would I Be” (Kerry Kurt Phillips, Angela Hurt):

“This song I chose, not only because it's a well-written song, but I kinda related to it personally, with my divorce. Being in a relationship where somebody constantly tells you that you're not good enough, it makes you start to doubt who you are, and you never realize how strong you are until you have to be. I mean, I never thought that I could support myself and own a home and rely only upon myself for my daily needs. But when you have to do it, you do it.”

5. “White Lies And Picket Fences” (Jess Brown, Tony Lane, Tammy Powell):

“I just love the way this song is written. I think we all have been let down, and probably been in love with someone who promised us forever, and then decided, 'No, I think not.' That's just as much a part of music as the happy stuff, and I think it's just real.”

6. “I'm Getting There” (Adrienne Follese, Billy Crain):

“It goes right to the process. We gotta heal. That's kinda where I was goin' there. After every heartbreak, there's a period of healing, although sometimes it takes longer than others. You eventually get there, if you allow yourself. “And there's a line in it—'There's more to life, not less'—I love that line. It kind of brought the whole song together.”

7. “Life Happened” (Patrick Jason Matthews, Kerry Kurt Phillips):

“We were cuttin' in the studio, and we had all our songs chosen, but when that song came along, we just immediately said, 'Something's gotta go so we can make room for this song,' 'cause it's so incredible. It reminds me of everybody that I know. “When I was in the studio singing this song, I had my eyes closed, and I could see the people that I went to school with that were these people. I've been to a class reunion. I had a wonderful time, but the people that you thought were gonna change the world maybe didn't do everything that they thought they were gonna do, or you thought they were gonna do, but they're very happy with their lives anyway, and it's just a reminder that everything happens for a reason.”

8. “I Used To Be That Woman” (Tammy Cochran):

“That song was inspired when a friend of mine, and myself, went to a writers night at The Bluebird Café in Nashville. Sometimes you know the people at your table, and sometimes you don't. There were about six writers in the round that night, and there were two ladies sitting next to us that we didn't know. “You can't talk loud, and I hear this lady next to me whisper to the girl who's across the table from her. She says, 'That's him right there, in the plaid shirt.' She was referring to one of the writers. I'm sittin' right there, so, of course, I look. Then she whispers, 'That girl there, that's his girlfriend. That girl over there with the two kids—that's his wife.' “Because I was married to someone who was not faithful, I looked at that wife, and I just kinda went, 'Oh, my God, this probably happened to me. I probably was in the same room and didn't even know it. I used to be her.' “A week or so later, I was on the road in a hotel room, and I started thinkin' about it. It was so weird, but I knew there was somethin' there, and started writin' the song on one of those little, 2x3 notepads they give you.”

9. “Dead Of The Night” (Tammy Cochran, Patricia Gray):

“Honestly, this song doesn't really relate to the theme, but there's gotta be a good controversial song in every country album! “I am not an accomplished guitar player—not at all—but I learned a new chord, and every time I learn a new chord, I have to write a song with the chord in it. It inspires me somehow. So I was actually sittin' on my bed, practicing my new chord, and I came up with this melody. It was so haunting, and the song really needed to be a very, very dark, mysterious kinda thing. So I came up with the title, 'The Dead Of The Night.' “I'm a big fan of Lifetime TV, and you have a lot of real-life stories on Lifetime. They aired one about an abusive marriage, and the child was always trying to take up for the mom, and it got me going, so I called Patricia Gray, and told her the story. I said, 'Listen, What do you think?' It was about 10:00 at night, and she was like, 'Are you OK? Do you need to talk? Is something wrong?' Now we laugh about it. She reflects back to that and says, 'I was so worried about you.' I'm callin' her at 10:00 goin', 'Listen to this! It's about killin' somebody, with this really weird chord in it.' “We wrote it about six weeks later, after we'd had a real good laugh about my whacko idea. We figured it would never get cut, but we thought it was cool.”

10. “All In How You Look At Things” (Tammy Cochran, Patricia Gray):

“That was the first song that Patricia and I wrote. She brought the idea, with the title, and she had the same idea I had about how things that are devastating to you at one time, when you look back on them, you realize that you had to go through that bad part to get to the good stuff, to get to where you are. I thought it was a great way to give a little bit of hope to the future to come, even if what life has brought you so far isn't quite what you thought it would be.”

11. “If You Can” (Joy Swinea):

“'If You Can' was the first single that I ever released, and I absolutely love the song. It did well for a first single, but I think there are a lot of country fans who may not be familiar with the song. It's the song that got me started, and I really wanted more people to have the opportunity to hear it, so we made it a bonus track on the new album.”