“God Gave Me A Girl” by Russell Dickerson is a song that tells his life story.
The song, which Russell, Ashley Gorley, Chase McGill, and Zach Crowell wrote, describes the highs and lows Russell experienced before his wife, Kailey, came into his life.
“We broke up back in college. We had just graduated, actually, and I was out on the road. I was playing show after show, like, ‘I’m going to live this rock star dream until the wheels fall off.” Russell recalled in an interview with ABC Audio.
Dickerson continued, “And it literally took about a month to [get to the point] where I was like, ‘What am I doing?’ And that was kind of that a-ha moment, like in the first verse, [where] it’s talking about [pouring] my heart out to empty bars [that left] me with a broken heart. And then the chorus is like, ‘No, God gave me a girl.’”
Dickerson admits that his career wouldn’t be what it is without the help of Kailey. “Oh, I mean, she inspired ‘Yours,’ obviously all of my songs. She came on the road, she helped out, she drove the van, she sold the merch, and it was just that without her, we wouldn’t be where I am today,” says Dickerson.
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