One Mississippi

Album

Different Man

Label

RCA Records Nashville

Genre

Country pop

Composer(s)

Kane Brown;Ernest K. Smit;hesse Frasure;Levon Gray

Entered Chart

Sep 4, 2021

Peak Date

Jan 8, 2022

Released

August 20, 2021

Recorded

Unknown

Catalog #

RCA Records Nashville

B-Side

n/a

"One Mississippi, two Mississippi" is a reference to a way of counting, especially used in southern US states. Saying the word "Mississippi" after a number makes it about a second long. Various uses of "One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, etc." include counting the seconds to estimate distance to a storm, or a children's game of hide and seek. Here, Kane Brown continually runs into a woman with whom he has an on-and-off romance. As he drowns his bourbon at the bar, Brown counts down to when there's a tap on his shoulder and they're hooking up again. Brown wrote the song with leading Nashville songsmiths Jesse Frasure and Ernest Keith Smith, plus Alabama newcomer Levon Gray. According to Brown, the collaboration with Gray came about after Gray tagged him in an Instagram Story. Impressed with his voice and the song he'd written, Brown invited him to Music City for a co-writing session. He arrived with the title of "One Mississippi" and the meaning behind it. Brown said: "I kind of sat back and let him do his thing… He's batting 1000 for the first time we wrote." After wowing the "What Ifs" singer and the other writers, Gray signed to Brown's Verse 2 Music publishing company.

You and I had this off and on so long
You've been here, then you've been gone
So many times

And every night, yeah I'm always bumping into you
Well, you do the same things we used to
It's your place or it's mine, so

Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh
We'll lie and swear we're through
With the lonely, drunken deja vu
Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh
Five minutes out of downtown
Ain't nothing but a countdown

One Mississippi, two Mississippi
Three shots of whiskey
Are you on your way?
We're tipsy, baby, come kiss me
I can't wait, I can't wait
Mississippi, two Mississippi
Three in the mornin'
We'll be on our way
So tipsy, can't stop kissin'
I can't wait, I can't wait
Forever

Mm, every time I'm at this bar
Tap on the shoulder, turn around
And baby, there you are

And it's fire
Yeah, like this bourbon hundred-proof
Yeah, they don't burn the way you do
Yeah, we're better in the dark, so

Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh
We'll lie and swear we're through
With the lonely, drunken deja vu
Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh
Five minutes out of downtown
Ain't nothing but a countdown

One Mississippi, two Mississippi
Three shots of whiskey
Are you on your way?
We're tipsy, baby, come kiss me
I can't wait, I can't wait
Mississippi, two Mississippi
Three in the mornin'
We'll be on our way
So tipsy, can't stop kissin'
I can't wait, I can't wait
Forever

Woo

Kinda like that Georgia wind
We'll be gone and back again
But always wind up right back where we are
Playing roulette with our hearts
And blowing smoke rings in the dark, yeah

Oh-oh-oh, oh
We'll lie and swear we're through
With the lonely, drunken deja vu
Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh
Five minutes out of downtown (ain't nothing but a countdown)
Ain't nothing but a countdown

One Mississippi, two Mississippi
Three shots of whiskey
Are you on your way
We're tipsy, baby, come kiss me
I can't wait, I can't wait
Mississippi, two Mississippi
Three in the mornin'
We'll be on our way
So tipsy, can't stop kissin'
I can't wait, I can't wait
Forever

Every time I'm at this bar
Tap on the shoulder, turn around
And baby, there you are