From the recording Backroads and Backstories
Let’s Ruin a Country Song is a self-aware, tongue-in-cheek celebration of a love that didn’t fall apart. Instead of heartbreak, goodbye songs, and burned bridges, this one laughs at the fact that none of that ever happened—and that’s exactly what makes it “wrong” by Nashville standards.
The song plays with the idea that country music is supposed to end in tears, but this story refuses to cooperate. No breakup, no regrets, no running away—just two people still standing, still choosing each other, and enjoying the irony of it all.
Warm, clever, and lightly rebellious, Let’s Ruin a Country Song breaks the Nashville code by proving that sometimes the real twist isn’t the heartbreak you survive—it’s the heartbreak you never had.
Lyrics
They say in every country tune
Some fool’s losin’ what he can’t redo
There’s a tear in his beer and a lonesome line
’Bout a girl who left and a truck that died
But I ain’t singin’ that same sad part
You messed around and stole my heart
Now the bottle’s full and the lights stay on
Guess we’re doin’ this heartbreak wrong
Let’s ruin a country song together
Let’s make it end up good forever
No sad goodbye, no whiskey cryin’
No tail lights fade, no blue hearts dyin’
Let’s mess up every sad cliché
And love each other anyway
Let’s ruin a country song together
Yeah let’s ruin a country song together
We’ll still have boots and a small-town bar
But we’ll leave in one truck, not apart
We’ll dance ’til the jukebox runs outta hits
And laugh ’bout the heartbreak we didn’t get
We’ll write new lines where love stays strong
No cheatin’ notes in our happy song
They’ll say we broke the Nashville code
’Cause storybooks don’t go gold
Let’s ruin a country song together
Let’s make it end up good forever
No sad goodbye, no whiskey cryin’
No tail lights fade, no blue hearts dyin’
Let’s mess up every sad cliché
And love each other anyway
Let’s ruin a country song together
Yeah let’s ruin a country song together
Let’s stay off them heartbreak charts
Keep our boots under the same old stars
If they call it wrong that’s fine by me
’Cause girl that’s the hit I wanna be
Let’s ruin a country song together
Let’s make it end up good forever
No sad goodbye, no whiskey cryin’
No tail lights fade, no blue hearts dyin’
Let’s mess up every sad cliché
And love each other anyway
Let’s ruin a country song together
Yeah let’s ruin a country song together
Let’s ruin a country song together
Let’s ruin a country song together