'Til You Can't

Album

Cloudcuckooland

Label

Warner Music Nashville

Genre

Country

Composer(s)

Ben Stennis;Matt Rogers

Entered Chart

Oct 23, 2021

Peak Date

Apr 2, 2022

Released

October 18, 2021

Recorded

Unknown

Catalog #

Warner Nashville

B-Side

Longer Than She Did"

This sweet ballad finds Johnson encouraging listeners to make the most of every moment with loved ones while they are still around. There's a box of greasy parts sittin' in the trunk of that sixty-five Still waitin' on you and your grandad to bring it back to life You can always get around to fixin' up that Pontiac 'Til you can't Ben Stennis and Matt Rogers penned the song. Johnson told Billboard his perspective on his own life changes every time he sings it. He explained: "You hear lyrics like fixing up the car with your grandpa, and everyone who hears it thinks, 'Well, grandpa may die.' Well, our time is limited, too. I think about all the division that we've had politically and with race and different things in our country... If you spend your time spreading hate, your time is going to be up, and that's all you did with your time here." The lyrics took on special meaning for Johnson back in the summer of 2021 when he was on board a private jet with his wife and it almost went down. Once he made it safely to the ground, he reflected on the message of '"Till You Can't." "After that I thought, why did I tell my daughters I didn't have time to get down on the floor and play with them," he said at a listening party. "Why didn't I tell this person I loved them, why didn't I tell that person, hey sorry for doing that, or why didn't I apply myself more here? Our days are numbered and I think it's something people need to hear. Do it now." Cody Johnson released this as the lead single from Human The Double Album. The singer sequenced the tracks to recreate the feel of one of his live shows in the hope that fans listen to them in consecutive order. Cody Johnson hopes the song will inspire the younger generation to move away from the entitled culture. When I heard ''Til You Can't' it was like... get off your butt and go get life," Johnson told Audacy's Coop. "Life's not going to come to you." "We've got a younger generation, I think in this country right now that's kind of a 'give to me, owed to me, I'm owed something,'" he continued. "Let me tell you somethin', nobody owes you anything in this life. If you want something you gotta go get it." The song became Cody Johnson's first Country #1 on the chart dated February 26, 2022. His previous best placing had been the #13 achieved by "On My Way to You" in 2019.

You can tell your old man 
You'll do some largemouth fishing another time
You just got too much on your plate to bait and cast a line
You can always put a rain check in his hand 
'Til you can't
You can keep putting off forever with that girl who's heart you hold
Swearing that you'll ask some day further down the road
You can always put a diamond on her hand 
'Til you can't

If you got a chance, take it, take it while you got a chance
If you got a dream, chase it, 'cause a dream won't chase you back
If you're gonna love somebody
Hold 'em as long and as strong and as close as you can
'Til you can't

There's a box of greasy parts sitting in the trunk of that '65
Still waiting on you and your granddad to bring it back to life
You can always get around to fixing up that Pontiac
'Til you can't

If you got a chance, take it, take it while you got a chance
If you got a dream, chase it, 'cause a dream won't chase you back
If you're gonna love somebody
Hold 'em as long and as strong and as close as you can
'Til you can't

So take that phone call from your momma and just talk away
'Cause you'll never know how bad you wanna 'til you can't someday
Don't wait on tomorrow 'cause tomorrow may not show
Say your sorries, your I-love-yous, 'cause man you never know

If you got a chance, take it, take it while you got a chance
If you got a dream, chase it, 'cause a dream won't chase you back
If you're gonna love somebody
Hold 'em as long and as strong and as close as you can
'Til you can't

Yeah, if you got a chance, take it (take it), take it while you got a chance
If you got a dream, chase it, 'cause a dream won't chase you back
If you're gonna love somebody
Hold 'em as long and as strong and as close as you can
Until you can't
'Til you can't
Yeah, take it