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He said he sees the song as \"an ode\" to Lauren and \"all the things that she's had to do\" and \"deal with\" during their years together.

\"I just kind of look back through my last decade of just how much she has done for me, the support system that she's given me -- I mean traveling with me for three straight years, you know, on a tour bus or a van and always being such a huge rock and a support system for me,\" he said.

He added, \"Honestly, sometimes I don't even think she's real -- I do think that she is an angel, just kind of walking on earth and somehow we got to be together -- and so [it was] definitely one of my most favorite, favorite songs that I've ever gotten me a part of writing.\"

He also expresses that devotion in the song, \"Us Someday,\" which goes into how he imagined their life together since he was a teenager.

\"It's kind of is a true testament of me being 18 years old, knowing that I was going to marry this woman and kind of just imagining our future together, just like a lot of kids, handprints in the driveway, chaotic minivan life, taking one to soccer practice, taking one to, you know, gymnastics, whatever it is,\" he said.

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PHOTO: US singer Thomas Rhett and his wife Lauren Akins arrive for the 54th Academy of Country Music Awards on April 7, 2019, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, in Las Vegas.
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Rhett said he's done \"so much growing\" since 2020, which he said impacted how this album came together.

While working on his fifth studio album, \"Country Again, Side A,\" released in 2021, Rhett said he saved several songs he'd been writing at the time and didn't know why.

Those tracks would eventually land on \"Where We Started.\"

\"I thought this project was going to be 'Country Again, Side B' and then I started writing songs like 'Where We Started' and I started writing songs like 'Mama’s Front Door' and 'Angels' and 'Bring The Bar' and 'Anything Cold' and all of a sudden, it didn't fully feel like 'Country Again, Side B' to me,\" he said. \"It felt like something completely different.\"

He went on, \"I've never been one to kind of follow the guidelines of well you put an A out so B has to come next, and so I kind of thought it'd be fun to to do something in between those two. The day we wrote 'Where We Started' is when this whole record started to morph into what it is now.\"

Rhett's new album is out now and his \"Bring the Bar to You\" tour kicks off this June and runs until October.

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