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Keith Urban Released ‘We Were’ This Morning

Keith Urban released his “We Were” single today. Keith posted to Instagram yesterday, “#WeWere • TOMORROW” View this post on Instagram A post shared by The song is a love song…

Keith Urban's 'We Were' Lyrics
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Keith Urban released his "We Were" single today.

Keith posted to Instagram yesterday, "#WeWere • TOMORROW"

The song is a love song about the way that two people were before they said goodbye.

The song says in part, "We were a couple of line-steppers that just couldn't wait to step over the line / Never thinking we wouldn't last / I was your first and you were mine."

The chorus sums up the way it is now saying all the things they loved to do together including "wearing leather jackets hanging onto Harley" and "hanging out over the edge of a water tower skyline" and then to the sad truth, "I am who I am, I just miss who I was when we were."

In the end Urban sings, "Friends say, oh well / Let that ship sail / You gotta let go of her / Just wasn't meant to be / But somewhere down deep, I still believe that we were."

Urban has been in the studio working on his next album. Tonight (5/14), he plays Nashville's Grand Ole Opry stage.

-Nancy Brooks

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.