Half Of Me

Album

Where We Started

Label

Valory music

Genre

Country

Duration

8:00

Composer(s)

Not listed

Entered Chart

Sep 3, 2022

Peak Date

Nov 12, 2022

Released

June 6, 2022

Recorded

Unknown

Catalog #

Valory

This playful track starts off with Thomas Rhett singing about his to-do list. "I'm supposed to mow the grass today," he croons, "I'm supposed to fix the fence." But the sun is beating down and Rhett just wants to raid his well-stocked fridge. The sky and the mountains are blue Half of me wants a cold beer And the other half does too Riley Green joins Rhett halfway through the song. He has a truck to wash, but ultimately he too just wants to kick back with an ice-cold beer. Rhett wrote "Half Of Me" in 2020 with his father, Rhett Akins, along with William Bundy and Josh Thompson. They drew from their experiences craving a frosty beverage while traveling one hot day. "We got off the bus and I looked at one of my co-writers, Josh, and I was like, 'Man let's go grab a bite to eat or something' and he was like, 'Man, half of me wants a cold beer and so does the other half!' I'd never heard that phrase before," Rhett recalled to Audacy's Rob & Holly. "We got on the bus wrote the song." After writing "Half Of Me," Rhett thought his buddy Riley Green would be great on the song. He invited his friend to drive up from Alabama and take part on the track. "Two weeks later, he was in Nashville at my producer's house and I got to watch him do the vocal," Rhett told Apple Music. "We just had a blast getting to do it together." The duo debuted the song live when Rhett invited Green to his concert at Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, on September 19, 2021, to perform it. Rhett and Green also collaborated on "That Was Us," a song they co-wrote that appears on Green's 2021 Behind the Bar EP. Both Thomas Rhett and Josh Thompson have form for singing of their love for a cold one. On "Beer With Jesus" Rhett sings of taking the Son of God to a Nashville bar and picking his brain over a Newcastle. On "Beer Can't Fix," Rhett cracks open a cold beer at the end of a crummy day. Thompson's debut single as an artist was "Beer On The Table," and the first single he released after signing for Show Dog-Universal Music was "Cold Beer With Your Name On It." Rhett, Akins, Bundy and Thompson wrote "Half Of Me" during a Birmingham tour stop. After they'd spent the morning penning "To The Guys That Date My Girls," they debated whether to grab some lunch. That's when Thompson made his "Man, half of me wants to drink a cold beer and so does the other half" comment. The four went on the bus and penned the song in 35 minutes.

Yeah, I'm supposed to mow the grass today
I'm supposed to fix the fence
But with the sun beatin' down on me
It's hard to make it make sense

Half of me wants a cold beer
Yeah, that's the cold hard truth
And with a 'frigerator stocked full of 'em
Tell me, what's a boy to do?
I ain't even tryna fight, it's already been decided
The sky and the mountains are blue
Half of me wants a cold beer
And the other half does too

Yeah, I kinda need to wash my truck
But hell, I kinda don't care
I think old Alan Jackson said it best
"It's 5 o'clock somewhere"

Half of me wants a cold beer
Yeah, that's the cold hard truth
And with a 'frigerator stocked full of 'em
Tell me, what's a boy to do?
I ain't even tryna fight, it's already been decided
The sky and the mountains are blue
Half of me wants a cold beer
Yeah, the other half does too

Yeah, yeah
Half of me wants a cold beer
If I did what I should be doing
Buddy, that would really ruin all the fun, yeah
There's a world of bad decisions out there
But this ain't one

'Cause half of me wants a cold, cold beer
Yeah, that's the cold hard truth (yeah, it is)
And with a 'frigerator stocked full of 'em
Tell me, what's a boy to do?
I ain't even tryna fight, it's already been decided
The sky and the mountains are blue
Half of me wants a cold beer
And the other half does too

Yeah, half of me wants a cold, cold beer
The other half wants two
Woo hoo

(That sounds good, but I can't tell if it's 'cause you're in it or not)