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On Friday, married sweetheartsMaren MorrisandRyan Hurdreleased their first-ever duet “Chasing After You,” a sweet love song about fighting for the one who left and longing for their return.
“I know it’s a matter of time/Till you walk, till you walk back out of my life/Leave me standing here lonely feeling like a fool,” the duo sings. “Every time, every time you say we’re done/You come back to the love you were running from/Don’t know why, don’t know why I let you but I do/Guess I love chasing after you.”
While the country stars have worked on music together before, this is their firstofficialcollaboration. The song is Hurd’s follow up to hisEOMEP last year.
Ryan Hurd and Maren Morris.Harper Smith
“Maren and I met writing songs and we’ve sung on each other’s records and written together, but this is the first time we’ve gotten to do an actual duet together,” said Hurd, 34, in a press release. (The couple met while co-writing a song for Tim McGraw.) “It feels like the timing is really perfect and it’s a full-circle moment to get to make music together in this way.”
Speakingwith Kelleigh Bannenon Apple Music Country’sToday’s Country Radio, the couple explained this is one tune they hadn’t written themselves.
“The song is actually pretty famous on Music Row. The demo made it through the rounds and a lot of people held it. And so I felt really blessed when it kind of fell to me a couple of years ago,” Hurd said. “We recorded a different version of it, but we wanted one that was a little more current and something that fit our sound a little bit better now. And it’s gone through a couple of versions, it really has. I remember we were on a beach in the Cayman Islands, I think it was the first trip we ever took together, and Maren was like, ‘I want to sing on that song with you.’ So this is years in the making.”
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“We’re really lucky to just be here learning how to be a family of three and it’s been really an amazing time in our lives,” he added.
source: people.com
