The Mitchell Tenpenny Alcohol You Later song was released in 2018 as a track on his debut album, ‘Telling All My Secrets’. About the Album Mitchell stated, ““I wanted to tell a bunch of different stories on this album, but they all had to be authentic and believable to me,” says Mitchell Tenpenny. “What I was feeling at the time, where I was in my head, what’s going on in the world, it all contributed to the end product. The songs that made it were the ones I was sure that I was passionate about getting on there—what I was proud of, what I really wanted to say.”
Watch the music video for “Alcohol You Later” and check out the lyrics below.
Mitchell Tenpenny Alcohol You Later Video
Mitchell Tenpenny co-wrote Alcohol You Later with Michael Ollin Lotten and Sam Michael Sumser. “Alcohol You Later” is the result of a happy barroom accident. In the fall of 2015, Tenpenny was hanging out at Loser’s Bar & Grill (a Nashville watering hole). He overheard a fellow patron say goodbye to a friend — “I’ll call you later” — but the man’s thick Southern accent garbled the words. It seemed like he said, “Alcohol you later,” and the potential twists in that phrase sounded like the basis for a song. “I don’t ever have a lot of ideas with the play on words,” says Tenpenny. “I never get those.” The next day, he showed up for a writing appointment at the West End home of songwriter Michael Lotten. Songwriter- producer Sam Sumser was staying at Lotten’s place in the midst of a working visit from Los Angeles (he has since moved to Nashville), and Tenpenny sheepishly threw out the “Alcohol You Later” title, unsure how it would be received. “Those titles are so tough,” says Sumser slope, and you can make it almost corny or like more of a joke than if you’re trying to write a song that makes people feel something.” But Lotten and Sumser were both in on the title, and it didn’t take long to figure out a boy/girl storyline, one in which a guy finds that every night on the town leads to a phone call to his ex that ends with a late-night tryst. Tenpenny was in the middle of an on-again/off-again relationship at the time, and the other two writers certainly related to it.
Check out the full lyrics to the tune below.
Mitchell Tenpenny Alcohol You Later Lyrics
Number one on my speed dial
I changed your name so my friends won’t find out
But they’re all heading home now
And I got word that she’s hanging downtown
I know I shouldn’t do it
Oh, but these shots I’m shooting
Make me not give a damn
And now it’s one more last time
We swore we wouldn’t
But it’s one more sunrise breaking through these curtains
And I know when we’re sober we’ll both say, “it’s over”
But it ain’t really over
‘Cause alcohol, alcohol, alcohol you later
Alcohol, alcohol, alcohol you later
Two for one’s on a Tuesday
Bartender poured ’em too strong ’cause he knows me
Then I take out my phone, find out if she’s at home
‘Cause I need someone to drink with
And now it’s one more last time
We swore we wouldn’t
But it’s one more sunrise breaking through these curtains
And I know when we’re sober we’ll both say, “it’s over”
But it ain’t really over
‘Cause alcohol, alcohol, alcohol you later
Alcohol, alcohol, alcohol you later
I know I shouldn’t do it
Oh, but these shots I’m shooting
Make me not give a damn
Because it’s one more last time
We swore we wouldn’t
But it’s one more sunrise breaking through these curtains
And I know when we’re sober we’ll both say, “it’s over”
But it ain’t really over
‘Cause alcohol, alcohol, alcohol you later
Alcohol, alcohol, alcohol you later
‘Cause alcohol, alcohol, alcohol you later
Alcohol, alcohol, alcohol you later
‘Cause alcohol, alcohol, alcohol you later
Alcohol, alcohol, alcohol you later
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