Whiskey On You

Album

NOW That’s What I Call Country, Volume 16

Label

Not on Label

Genre

Country

Duration

3:00

Composer(s)

Russell Sutton;Nate Smith (Country);Lindsay Rimes

Entered Chart

May 21, 2022

Peak Date

Feb 18, 2023

Released

Unknown

Recorded

Unknown

Catalog #

Sony Music Nashville

Paradise, California-native Nate Smith began his music career at 23 when he moved to Nashville. He signed his first label and publishing deal there and opened for such artists as Brett Eldredge, Eli Young Band, and Michael Ray. Smith returned to Paradise, California, in 2018, and shortly afterwards he lost his home to the Butte County Camp Fire. The tragedy inspired him to write songs again, so he moved back to Nashville. When a clip of Smith singing one of his tunes, "Wildfire," went viral on TikTok, it earned him a record deal with Sony Music Nashville. This song became his first to reach the Hot 100. This song finds Smith resorting to whiskey to drown the memory of a broken relationship. After a while, he realizes he's wasting his paychecks on his alcohol habit, as it won't bring his ex back. She's moved on to someone new, so he elects not "to waste another drop of whiskey" on her. Smith penned the song after going through "some personal stuff." The singer had a writer's retreat during that time. "After a breakup, it takes a while sometimes to get yourself back together and I thought about how I would feel in the next few months as I worked through it," he told Billboard. "Whiskey On You" was a way for him to express his feelings about "getting through to the other side of heartbreak." Smith wrote Whiskey On You" with Russell Sutton (Elvie Shane's "My Boy," Drew Green's "The Rest Of Our Lives") and the track's producer Lindsay Rimes (Dylan Scott's "Hooked," Kane Brown's "Heaven").

Now I've wasted a paycheck on whiskey and longnecks
Ever since you left, trying to figure this out
This Jack I've been drinking's been wasted on thinking
Now I got a new reason for throwing 'em down
Line 'em up (line 'em up), pour 'em tall (pour 'em tall)
Here's to us, happily never after all

Ain't gonna waste one more night missin', wanting you back
No, I ain't gonna cry another tear in this glass
You didn't waste any time finding somebody new
So, I ain't gonna waste another drop of whiskey on you
No, I ain't

To hell with the lonely and the why don't you want me?
Yeah, bartender pour me a farewell round
Line 'em up (line 'em up), make 'em strong (make 'em strong)
Tell the band that I need me a drinkin' song

Ain't gonna waste one more night missin', wanting you back
No, I ain't gonna cry another tear in this glass
You didn't waste any time finding somebody new
So, I ain't gonna waste another drop of whiskey on you
No, I ain't gonna waste another drop of whiskey on you (yeah)
No, I ain't, no, I ain't

Ain't gonna waste another drop of whiskey on you, no
Ain't gonna waste another drop of whiskey on you

Line 'em up (line 'em up), pour 'em tall (pour 'em tall)
Here's to us happily never after all

Ain't gonna waste one more night missin', wanting you back
No, I ain't gonna cry another tear in this glass
You didn't waste any time finding somebody new
So, I ain't gonna waste another drop of whiskey on you
No, I ain't gonna waste another drop of whiskey on you

No, I ain't (ain't gonna waste another drop of whiskey on you), yeah
No, I ain't (ain't gonna waste another drop of whiskey on you), yeah
Ain't gonna waste another drop of whiskey on you
No, I ain't gonna waste another drop of whiskey on you
No, I ain't
No, I ain't gonna waste another drop of whiskey on you