Peak
70
Weeks
2
Score
133
Chart Year
2025
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"This Town's Been Too Good to Us" is Dylan Scott's love letter to his hometown of Bastrop, Louisiana. It looms large in his memory like an old family photo album: full of faded snapshots, formative experiences, and the kind of people who shape you without even trying. Scott, who's built a reputation for heartfelt love songs (many inspired by his wife), explained on Backstage Country with Elaina Smith that he didn't want to box himself into the "love song corner." So, with the help of Ashley Gorley, Ryan Vojtesak, John Byron, and Taylor Phillips, he set out to write something different: an ode to the town that made him. The result is a song brimming with gratitude, a nostalgic thank-you note to the people and places that defined him. As he explained to Elaina Smith, it's not just his story - it's everyone's. "I feel like everybody can say the same thing about where they're from - whether it's a city or whether it's not even a town, just a middle-of-nowhere map dot," he said. "Everybody's appreciative of where they grew up and how they grew up, and so this is my story and my thank you to my hometown." Bastrop is a small town in Northeast Louisiana. Back in 2018 Scott recorded another song about his hometown, "Nothing To Do Town." While "This Town's Been Too Good to Us" is a heartfelt tribute to the positive impact of Bastrop, "Nothing to Do Town" is a lighthearted ode to making the best of life in a small town. Another Dylan Scott song, 2016's "My Town," celebrates the everyday joys of living in a small community. The track, produced by Charlie Handsome and Jacob Durrett, leans into a warm, melodic country sound, the kind that feels like a front porch conversation at dusk. First released as a promotional single on June 2, 2023, "This Town's Been Too Good To Us" officially dropped as the second single from the reissue of Livin' My Best Life on February 12, 2024. It then went on to do what all great country odes hope to do - climb to the top of Billboard's Country Airplay chart, hitting #1 on April 5, 2025. It was Scott's fourth chart-topper, joining "My Girl," "New Truck" and "Can't Have Mine (Find You a Girl)" in the winner's circle.
Gave us that hilltop place to park Gave us them girls that stole our hearts Gave us them bucks up on the wall The way we live and the way we talk Gave us state that senior year Them country stores to buy that beer A place to go nobody knows When you take it in and you take it Slow like that river rolls Where that green grass grows I can't explain it Aw, it's something, ain't it? Yeah, we sure painted it up, tore down them old two-lane roads We either stole every sign or left 'em in bullet holes It wasn't nowhere as bad as we all said that it was Yeah, looking back at it now, this town's been too good to us Raised hell on the weekends, yeah Man, what were we thinking when we said We'd leave it in a cloud of dust? This town's been too good to us Good people in a back row pew Good dirt that the corn grows through Good water that can wash away our sins Good times with some damn good friends Whole lot of not too much to do All the time in the world to do it Every bit of that down home dirt was Heaven on Earth And we never knew it Yeah, we sure painted it up, tore down them old two-lane roads We either stole every sign or left 'em in bullet holes It wasn't nowhere as bad as we all said that it was Yeah, looking back at it now, this town's been too good to us Raised hell on the weekends, yeah Man, what were we thinking when we said We'd leave it in a cloud of dust? This town's been too good to us Too good to us Slow like that river rolls Where that green grass grows I can't explain it, aw, it's something, ain't it? (Something, ain't it? Something ain't it?) Yeah, we sure painted it up, tore down them old two-lane roads We either stole every sign or left 'em in bullet holes It wasn't nowhere as bad as we all said that it was Yeah, looking back at it, now this town's been too good to us Raised hell on the weekends, yeah Man, what were we thinking when we said We'd leave it in a cloud of dust? This town's been too good to us Yeah, too good to us This town's been too good to us
| Week | Chart Date | Position | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 4, 2025 | 70 | 56 |
| 2 | May 11, 2025 | 80 | 46 |