Chris Stapleton isn’t just the guy who recently performed the National Anthem at the Super Bowl. He is a very successful country artist whose debut album was released in 2015. He shot to the top and he has remained there ever since. One big thing about his music is there are no repeats among his greatest songs, which is a rarity. None of Chris Stapleton’s successes are a carbon copy of another. They all have a different meaning behind them, making him as well as his music pretty legendary.
Chris’s songwriting abilities are a big part of why he is so well-known as an artist, his wife is incredibly talented too. You would never know by listening that he was a huge fan of Snoop Dogg as a teen. Luckily for us he didn’t take on the rap game for a career, or we may never have heard some of the saddest, yet beautiful, songs in country music today. The meaning behind those songs makes them even more incredible, and if you’re a fan, it’s something you definitely need to know.
9 What Is The Meaning Of Chris Stapleton’s “Daddy Doesn’t Pray Anymore”?
Despite writing ”Daddy Doesn’t Pray Anymore” about his father in 2005, Chris Stapleton didn't record it until after his death in 2013. In an interview with Taste of Country Stapleton explains, "I had gone home for some holiday or something to my parents' house. My dad was a very straight arrow, prayed-at-every-meal kind of guy. For whatever reason, whether he was tired or wasn't feeling well, he didn't say grace at this particular meal, which he had done at every meal that I'd ever eaten with him. And he said it at every meal after that, but this particular meal he didn't, and it struck me that daddy doesn't pray anymore."
Stapleton said after his father passed away, the song hit a lot harder for him, and he knew it was time to record it.
8 What Is The Meaning Of Chris Stapleton’s Song “Broken Halos”?
The song “Broken Halos” was introduced in 2016, but it wasn’t until a February 2017 performance at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, with tears in his eyes Stapleton told the audience what inspired the song. “This is a sort of new song, an old song for me, but it’s a song about people who have passed away before their time. I recorded this on a day when a friend of mine passed away from pancreatic cancer. He was the same age as me. We played little league together and stuff like that. He was 38 years old, so this is for my buddy Mike.”
The song can be relatable to anyone who has lost a loved one too soon, it’s deep, and emotional.
7 What Is The Meaning Of Chris Stapleton’s “Maggie’s Song”?
“Maggie’s Song” is so sad Chris Stapleton himself has a hard time singing it. The day after their "fuzzy black pup" passed away, is when Chris wrote this goodbye. The song's introduction describes how they discovered Maggie abandoned in a shopping cart and the wonderful bond they had with the dog. Maggie "loved to chase squirrels" and protect the children.
The heartbreaking account of Maggie's last day is then shared. Stapleton says he remembers how their dog discovered she couldn't stand when she woke up one morning. One last time, she buried her head in the singer's hand. "I told her she was a good dog, then I told her goodbye."
6 What Is The Meaning Of Chris Stapleton’s “Without Your Love”?
Tonight I’ll find you in my dreams / And tomorrow I’ll wake up / And have to feel you fade away / That’s the way it goes it seems / Tears filled with pain. Are just a few of the lyrics to this heartbreaking ballad. A very relatable song, this one is about losing the one you love most due to your own actions. The lyrics beg for forgiveness and plead for that person to come back and make them whole again.
5 What Is The True Meaning Of Chris Stapleton’s “Drunkard's Prayer”?
It seems like the best Stapleton songs have layers. “Drunkard’s Prayer”, from 2017's From A Room: Vol. 2, is no different. This song is about a man who seems to have lost his faith, who instead turns to substances and struggles with the idea that God has let him down.
However, in the chorus, listeners learn that he's actually pleading with God to send his love back to him because he's been suffering from a broken heart and has turned to a sad way of life because of it. This song is relatable to thousands of Stapleton’s fans. Many people have suffered in the same way, just looking to numb a pain burning from within, praying God will change their circumstances.
4 What Is The Meaning Of Chris Stapleton’s Song “Scarecrow In The Garden”?
“Scarecrow In The Bottle” is a complete story, however the end is not what anyone expects; making it as underrated as Tim McGraw’s “Don’t Take The Girl.” It’s the story of a family that emigrated from Northern Ireland to West Virginia and started farming. The family earns a living from the farm, but the chorus paints a more foreboding picture of what may happen to this family.
We learn the farm goes through two generations, and eventually it’s not what it used to be. The fields change, the world changes. It leaves us with the lyrics, “I’ve been sitting here all morning, I was sitting here all night. With a bible in my left hand and a pistol in my right.” Chris Stapleton answers everyone’s questions in an interview with Universal Music Group; it’s about farming and someone taking their own life.
3 What Is The True Meaning Behind Chris Stapleton’s Song “Second One To Know”?
“Second One To Know” is a country-blues song with rock influences, Chris Stapleton is attempting to keep a relationship from falling apart. In the song he begs his love not to keep him in the dark if she ever begins to think their time together has come to an end. Basically, please don’t let him be the last to know, tell him to his face so he knows why.
2 What Is The Meaning Behind Chris Stapleton’s Song “Whiskey And You”?
The song, “Whiskey And You '' is a ballad about a man who tries to drink away the pain of his wife leaving him. He can try to drink the pain away all he wants, the only pain that ever goes away is that of the hangover afterward. It’s not the same with the pain he feels for losing her, it’s still there. It makes him so miserable he keeps trying to drown it out with a bottle, only to wake up to it again the next day.
1 What Is The Meaning True Behind Chris Stapleton’s Song “Fire Away”?
In an interview with The Boot, Chris Stapleton said, "The song is kind of about loving someone unconditionally through not-so-easy times, and the concept of the video kind of came to me as, that would be the hardest possible space in which to love somebody." The music video for the song delves deeply into that theme by depicting a relationship in which one partner experiences deep pain and sadness and ultimately takes their life.