“Here and Now” is a song recorded by American country music singer Kenny Chesney. It is the second single and title track from his nineteenth studio album Here and Now. The song was written by Craig Wiseman, David Lee Murphy and David Garcia.
Chesney told The Boot that “The chorus is everything I feel about my time on stage… the rush of it absolutely being the best place, best moment in the entire world. There’s no rush like it…It says everything about how we all put off living our lives because there’s so much other stuff to do.” It has a central theme about “living in the moment”.
Brian Mansfield, writing for Variety, said that “With a guitar intro that recalls the Doobie Brothers’ ‘China Grove’, the bracing title track marries Chesney’s classic-rock-infused country with his in-the-moment philosophy..Instead of ringing hollow, it might be the perfect motivational song for quarantine days — a high-energy number that doesn’t necessarily try to get you to do anything, except maybe to make the most of doing nothing.”
Check out the lyrics to the chart topping track below:
Seen the skyline of New York City
Fireflies in Tennessee
Sipped a little shine from a paper sack that’ll
Knock the horns off a Cadillac
I must’ve sat on a dozen islands
Watched the sun sink into the sea
Been there, done that, got the T-shirt and hat
But my favorite place to be is
Here and now
Nowhere else in this world enough
You and me, ain’t it good to be alive?
Ain’t no better place, ain’t no better time
Than here and now
Everybody’s waiting, but they’re waiting on what?
Better get to living ’cause all we’ve got is here and now
Think I fell in love for the first time
With a girl from Mexico
Thought I found a true love in Malibu, but
That water was a little too cold
Yeah, I left a few tears in the rearview
One or two that were hard to forget
Why you think we call the present the present?
‘Cause there ain’t no better gift than
Nowhere else in this world enough
You and me, ain’t it good to be alive?
Ain’t no better place, ain’t no better time
Than here and now
Everybody’s waiting, but they’re waiting on what?
Better get to living ’cause all we’ve got is here and now
A lotta people dreaming ’bout one-day-some-days
Waiting just around the bend (Waiting just around the bend)
I used to be one wonderin’ when they’d come
But now I’m livin’ in (But now I’m livin’ in)
Here and now
Yeah, I’m livin’ in the
Here and now
Nowhere else in this world enough
You and me, ain’t it good to be alive?
Ain’t no better place, ain’t no better time
Than here and now
Everybody’s waiting, but they’re waiting on what?
Better get to living ’cause all we’ve got is here and now\
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