Either Way is the fifth song on Chris Stapleton’s From A Room: Volume 1 and Stapleton’s own version of the stark ballad he wrote a decade ago. Lee Ann Womack released a version in 2008 that had Stapleton performing back-up vocals. The song is about the indifference of a man in his relationship. Whet...
[Verse 1]
We pass in the hall
On our way to separate rooms
The only time we ever talk
Is when the monthly bills are due
[Pre-Chorus]
We go to work, we go to church
We fake the perfect life
I'm past the point of give a damn
And all my tears are cried
[Chorus]
We can just go on like this
Say the word, we'll call it quits
Baby, you can go or you can stay
But I won't love you either way
[Verse 2]
It's been so long since I've felt
Anything inside these walls
You can't hate and you can't hurt
When you don't feel at all
[Pre-Chorus]
I used to cry and stay up nights
And wonder what went wrong
And it's been hard
But hearts can only do that for so long
[Chorus]
We can just go on like this
Say the word, we'll call it quits
Baby, you can go or you can stay
I won't love you either way
[Guitar Solo]
[Outro]
We can just go on like this
Say the word, we'll call it quits
Baby, you can go or you can stay
But I won't love you either way
Either Way was written by Chris Stapleton.
Either Way was produced by Chris Stapleton & Dave Cobb.
Chris Stapleton released Either Way on Fri May 05 2017.
In an interview with iHeartRadio published on May 5, 2017, Chris Stapleton said:
I wrote that song, it was more than a decade ago, and sometimes you just can’t remember what happened. But, I wrote it with Ken Marvin and Tim James, and we used to write pretty regularly. Those guys were a whole lot b...
He says “I won’t.” His lyrics aren’t always the easiest to make out, the way he growls them, but the rest of the song wouldn’t make sense with “wanna.” There’s also an earlier cut by Lee Ann Womack on which it’s clearly “won’t,” and Stapleton has said that “it should probably worry me” that his wife...