In early 2011, Rascal Flatts released "I Won't Let Go" as the second single from their Nothing Like This album. The No. 2, platinum-certified country hit was written by Jason Sellers & Steve sầu Robson, the latter of whom also co-wrote the Flatts' Grammy-nominated "What Hurts the Most."


"I Won't Let Go" came from Sellers & Robson's first-ever co-writing session. Below, Sellers shares with The Boot the story behind the tuy vậy, & the message he hopes others will hear in its lyrics.

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"I Won't Let Go" is special to lớn me because I'm a Christian. It felt lượt thích, to lớn me, because we didn't define the character in the tuy nhiên, it could be a frikết thúc saying it to a friend, it could, in some sense, be God saying it khổng lồ someone, it could be you saying it to lớn your husbvà or wife ... So, in that sense, the song's exciting to me, because it's got an inspirational message. It says something good that lifts people up.


I wrote this tuy vậy with Steve sầu Robson, about . He's from Engl&, & he and Darrell Franklin had some deal together, where Darrell handles Steve's co-writes and publishing. So he mix me & Steve up.

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This was the first tuy vậy Steve sầu and I ever wrote together. He came over from Engl&, & we worked on the melody & the direction of the lyrics.


Steve is an incredible writer. We didn't have sầu to spover that much time on it. He had a musical piece already going. It just felt so inspired, & we built on that.


After Steve left, I poured over what we had a lot more, because I loved the message & I wanted to make it as cđại bại to right as I could make it. I was thinking, if you were quoting what someone was saying in their own words ... If they were saying this lớn someone in the family that's a soldier that's over there fighting, or khổng lồ your mom, dad, wife, husband ... I think everyone wants khổng lồ have someone say to lớn them, "Hey, I can't stop it from raining on you, but I will be here khổng lồ help you get through."


We get emails from people -- và I know a lot of artists và labels bởi, too -- how a tuy nhiên touches someone's life. I vì chưng this for a living, và I'm trying lớn make money ... but when you get those kinds of stories & feedback, you really feel like you had some contribution. With an uplifting lyric lượt thích that, maybe it gives somebody toàn thân hope to move sầu forward and make it through another day, through whatever their trauma or disaster is, or even just getting tired in life.