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Sara Evans - Slow Me Down

Sara Evans - Slow Me Down Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Slow Me Down
Released: 2013

Slow Me Down Lyrics

Wheels are turning in my mind
Don't want to leave, but I might this time
Seconds from whispering goodbye
Yeah, the wheels are turning in my mind

If all that's left to do is walk away
Then, baby, I'm as gone as yesterday
But if there's something you still need to say
You need to say it now
Hurry up and Slow Me Down
Slow me down

If you let this train roll down these tracks
Going to wish you tried to talk me back
Boy, you're going to miss everything we had
If you let this train roll down these tracks

If all that's left to do is walk away
Then, baby, I'm as gone as yesterday
But if there's something you still need to say
You need to say it now
Hurry up and slow me down
Slow me down

The wheels are turning in my mind
Don't want to leave, but I might this time

If all that's left to do is walk away
Then, baby, I'm as gone as yesterday
But if there's something you still need to say
You need to say it now (you need say it now)
Oh, you need to say it now (you need to say it now)
Hurry up and slow me down
Slow me down

Slow me down

Writer/s: HEATHER LYNN MORGAN, MARV GREEN, JIMMY ROBBINS
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
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Slow Me Down

This Marv Green, Heather Morgan, and Jimmy Robbins penned mid-tempo Country ballad was released by Sara Evans as the lead single from her seventh studio album. Evans debuted the song during her annual fan club party in June 2013.

The track is sung from the perspective of a woman threatening to walk out on her man. "I knew, as I've known with other songs that I've written and recorded, that 'Slow Me Down' was me," said Evans. "I love songs that evoke emotion — it really is what connects people to the music. When we went into the studio to record ['Slow Me Down'] my main goal was to capture the desperation and passion in the song — to strike a balance between a strong vocal and the emotion that would pull in the listener."

The song's narrator finishes by telling her man that if he has something to say that he should "hurry up and slow [her] down."

"There's definitely something about it," Evans told Billboard magazine. "That's what we all felt when we heard it. When they pitched it to us, it was so emotional and the thought of 'Hurry Up and Slow Me Down' is one of the best lines I have heard in a song in so long. I'm very lucky they pitched it to me."

The song's music video was directed by Peter Zavadil, who has helmed many of Evans' previous clips. Her love interest is played by NASCAR driver Carl Edwards, who got a call from the singer just days before the scheduled shoot. Evans admitted that she didn't know who Edwards was. "I don't really follow NASCAR. I love going to the races, and I've sung the National Anthem at the races, and it's so exciting. But, I really didn't know much about him until he came to be in the video - and he's a great actor. He was so into the role," she said to Billboard magazine, smiling.

"I told him to be mean and be a jerk, and be a total ass so I could muster up the emotion I needed for the part," Evans continued. "He was incredible. He was a great bad guy, but a real nice guy."

Evans said to Billboard magazine regarding the album's alluring cover art: "I loved the idea of standing in front of the clock because of 'Slow Me Down.' We were shooting at this beach house in Malibu, and this clock was outside. We liked the way – not to sound weird – that the legs looked, thought it was sexy, but still classy. We're standing in front of the clock, it says 'Slow Me Down,' and the legs are a part of the clock, almost."

I also loved the one-sleeve sweater with the bangles," she added, "so style-wise, I thought it was cool with the fashion."

Evans said regarding the song's meaning: "I love what the song says. 'hurry up and slow me down' is obviously a great play on words, but it means so much more than that. She is basically saying, 'I need you to know that I'm willing to give this relationship a chance, but if you don't change your ways, I'm leaving. But when I'm walking away, I want you to hurry up and slow me down. I want you to pursue me.'"

The song became the centerpiece of Evans' Slow Me Down album as it was the singer's favorite track. "There's just something about it," she told Radio.com . "It's sad, but it's also kind of mysterious."

"I just love how the girl in the song is so completely vulnerable because she's saying, 'I love you and I want to be with you, but I'm trying to tell you that these things need to change, and if they don't, then I've got to leave," Evans continued. "I've got to have that much self respect, and I have to walk away from the situation, but I hope that you won't be able to live without me and that you'll stop me from leaving.'"

Sara Evans - If I Run

Sara Evans - If I Run Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Slow Me Down
Released: 2014

If I Run Lyrics

You know they say that your first heartbreak
Can forever change the way you see love
But ask anyone who's had it broken more than once
They'll say it's twice as hard to get your heart to trust

So baby, can you tell me this
Can I count on all your promises
Are you gonna be the one that sticks

If I Run
Baby, will you chase me
Be the one who wants to save me
Never walk away no matter what
If I was lost
Would you come and find me
When I forget would you remind me
Who I am will always be enough
If I run
If I run

I don't wanna make you feel bad
Or make you pay for the past
I'm so sorry that sometimes
I get twisted up

I'm not saying that I doubt the way you feel
I'm not saying what you're saying isn't real
I just really wanna know the deal

If I run
Baby, will you chase me
Be the one who wants to save me
Never walk away no matter what
If I was lost
Would you come and find me
When I forget would you remind me
Who I am will always be enough
If I run
If I run

And if I'm broken
Feeling hopeless
I gotta know it
Really know it
Yeah, oh

If I run
Baby, will you chase me
Be the one who wants to save me
Never walk away no matter what
Oh, if I was lost
Would you come and find me
When I forget would you remind me
Who I am will always be enough
If I run
If I run
Baby, if I run
If I run

Writer/s: EVANS, SARA / ROCHELLE, KARYN / STEVENS, SHANE
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group, MAJOR BOB MUSIC, INC.
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If I Run

Evans wrote this ballad with Karyn Rochelle and Shane Stevens. Of the three Slow Me Down cuts penned by the singer, this is the most personal. "It's about this girl saying, 'I totally love you and I want this relationship, but I'm scared. I'm just letting you know that I have not been loved well in my life," she explained to Taste of Country . "So if I run, or if I get scared, will you chase me? Will you be the one that wants to save me?'"

"When we were writing … we were just talking about that fact that (when) little girls lose that relationship with their dad and they don't have a strong relationship with their dad throughout their teenage years and throughout their whole life, then they have this skewed sense of what love is," she continued. "And so they don't recognize love in the way that most girls do who have a strong father force in their life."

"Girls want to be pursued," Evans added. "So this song, is about being pursued and, you know, wanting that man to chase her and pursue her and let her know 'I would never let you walk away.'"

Sara Evans' husband, radio show host Jay Barker, calls this the "prodigal son song."

Sara Evans - Put My Heart Down

Sara Evans - Put My Heart Down Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Slow Me Down
Released: 2014

Put My Heart Down Lyrics

I never pictured us ever fighting this much
Thought we were figured out but it's so messy now
Your words they cut so deep and I think that you should leave
I'll have to live without what I can't live without
It already hurts
So before it gets worst just

Put my heart down, put my heart down
Put my heart down, put my heart down
And walk away
Just like it was
A loaded gun
Put my heart down, put my heart down
Put my heart down, put my heart down
And walk away
This kind of love
Is dangerous

So pack up all your things and just leave some air to breathe
A million toxic tears falling like rain 'round here
This is the final hour
The end of our story tonight
And I don't wanna fight

So put my heart down, put my heart down
Put my heart down, put my heart down
And walk away
Just like it was
A loaded gun
Put my heart down, put my heart down
Put my heart down, put my heart down
And walk away
This kind of love
Is dangerous

Oh, it already hurts
So before it gets worse
I know it ain't easy
But if you really loved me

Just put my heart down, put my heart down
And walk away, yeah

Just put my heart down, put my heart down
Put my heart down, put my heart down
And walk away
Just like it was
A loaded gun
Put my heart down, put my heart down
Put my heart down, put my heart down
And walk away
This kind of love
Is dangerous

Writer/s: HUETT, ELIZABETH / CHAPMAN, NATHAN / DORFF, ANDREW M
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
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Put My Heart Down Song Chart

The love that Sara Evans is singing about in this song is a toxic one. The Nashville songstress told Rolling Stone Country that she feels the message of this Nathan Chapman, Andrew Dorff and Liz Huett penned tune was an important addition to her Slow Me Down album. "She's being very smart and strong, recognizing a bad relationship and saying, 'Please leave me alone. Please walk away.' It's painful for her to say that, but she knows she needs to, which is not that common," said Evans. "I'm always drawn to songs where the woman is the victim, the one being hurt. But I like that this one is saying, 'Let's stop this while we're ahead.'"

"So many people will stay in a bad relationship, even at the very beginning when they see warning signs, and they'll still pursue that relationship when they know it's not a good match," she continued. "How many divorces would not happen if people would recognize the warning signs early on? If the relationship is toxic, move on. There are a gazillion fish in the sea."

Sara Evans premiered the song on Nashville singing it as a duet with Will Chase, who plays Luke Wheeler on the hit show.

The song's music was shot in an historic mansion in Nashville and directed by Peter Zavadil. It features Evans surrounded by hundreds of lights. "It's to symbolize the light going off in her head," the singer explained. "It's her being smart and realizing exactly what the relationship is. It's not that she has 100 percent courage to do this. [She's saying], 'I'll walk away, and you walk away… but you first. Don't pursue me, because it's going to be hard for me to resist you.'"

Evans explained that what first attracted her to this tune was that it's a sad song with a happy melody. "I like the contradiction and I think it makes for a really interesting overall song," she said. "Peter [Zavadil] found a great way to bring that contradiction to the screen with the light bulbs and showing them eventually exploding. You have such beautiful and pretty scenes with the soft lighting and beautiful mansion, contradicted by the exploding bulbs. I couldn't be happier with how it turned out."