This Song's for You
"This Song's for You" is a song written by Rory Lee Feek and Zac Brown and recorded by American country duo Joey + Rory. It was released to country radio in July 2010 and as a music download on July 20, 2010, and serves as the lead-off single to their second studio album, Album Number Two, which was released on September 14, 2010. Content "This Song's for You" is a mid-tempo backed primarily by steel guitar, mandolin and fiddle. In the first verse, the narrator makes note of the average hard-working American ("If you put eight honest hours in for eight hours' worth of pay") who regularly attends church and loves the country they call home ("If you wish we didn't have to go and send our boys to war / But you still think this country of ours' is sure worth dyin' for"). In the second verse, the narrator makes note of the song's neo-traditional production as being a thing of the past, and that people paying money for their concerts deserve to hear it ("If you paid your hard-earned money to that bouncer at the door / To hear the kinds of songs you don't hear too much