“Overdrive” is a song by Thomas Rhett about his teenage love for his wife, Lauren. The song describes how Rhett, on a hot summer night, drives his Ford F-150 into “overdrive” to get to a high school party to pick her up. It captures the exhilarating feeling of young, small-town love and the exciteme...
[Verse 1]
Something pretty simple 'bout an eighteen Tennessee summer
84 was the number that I wore under Friday lights
How could I forget that night?
Yeah, that girl was a homecoming honey, kinda small-town pretty
Made them dark days sunny with her emerald eyes
I thought, Lord, I had to make her mine
[Pre-Chorus]
Yeah, I's about to go and crash a party with the guys
And when she called me up and said, "Can you pick me up tonight?"
[Chorus]
I put that '04 F-1-5-0 right into overdrive (Overdrive)
Like a bat outta hell with them JBL's working overtime
Yeah, I'm high-beaming down a backroad, yeah
Tires screaming, I'm getting close
Tryna do the limit, but my heart doing way more than sixty-five
On that "Baby, I'm coming over" drive
On that "Baby, I'm coming over" drive
[Verse 2]
I pulled up where the party was, where the Bacardi was
That was the start of us, I told you
Got your heels stuck in the mud, I had to carry ya
All the way to the truck on my shoulders
[Pre-Chorus]
Yeah, we both smelled like bonfire smoke
Took my hand as she moved in close
She said, "I'll kiss your cheek, but I'll kiss your lips
If we can go somewhere alone"
[Chorus]
So I put that '04 F-1-5-0 right into overdrive (Overdrive)
Like a bat outta hell with them JBL's working overtime
Yeah, I'm high-beaming down a backroad, yeah
Tires screaming, now I'm getting close
Tryna do the limit, but my heart doing way more than sixty-five
On that Friday-night-still-ain't-over drive
On that Friday-night-still-ain't-over drive
[Bridge]
Yeah, I's about to go and crash a party with the guys
And when she called me up and said, "Can you pick me up tonight?"
[Chorus]
I put that '04 F-1-5-0 right into overdrive
Like a bat outta hell with them JBL's working overtime (Working overtime, yeah)
Yeah, I'm high-beaming down a backroad, yeah (Down a backroad)
Tires screaming, now I'm getting close (Now I'm getting close, yeah)
Tryna do the limit, but my heart doing way more than sixty-five
On that "Baby, I'm coming over" drive
On that "Baby, I'm coming over" drive
[Outro]
I'm high-beaming down a backroad, yeah (Down a backroad, yeah)
Tires screaming, now I'm getting close, yeah
Overdrive was written by Julian Bunetta & John Ryan & Jacob Kasher & Thomas Rhett.
Overdrive was produced by Julian Bunetta & John Ryan & Dann Huff.
Thomas Rhett released Overdrive on Fri Jul 12 2024.
A song like ‘Overdrive’ would be directly centred towards high school kids—and then people that even, maybe, were high school sweethearts or got back together later in life—to go to reminisce on how innocent that time was. And how just because you’re kind of young, dumb and reckless at 16 doesn’t me...