Morgan Wallen holds both the seventh and eighth slots in this week’s Billboard Hot 100. And spoiler alert: this isn’t the last time you’ll hear from him this week.
‘I Ain’t Comin’ Back’ is a promotional single from Wallen’s upcoming album, not to be confused with the four proper singles he has released. If you think five singles dropping in advance of a new album is too many, consider that the album has 37 tracks.
I have to cynically surmise that the abundance of songs is a bid to take over the charts and pad some stats. Wallen has done this before, and he has good company (see Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department for the most prominent recent example).
This track is Wallen’s second collab with Post Malone, and while I don’t think it will reach the heights of ‘I Had Some Help,’ I could see it doing well. It has a good sound and a great line to close out the chorus: ‘There’s a lot of reasons I ain’t Jesus, but the main one is that I ain’t comin’ back.”
I’m a redneck
‘Cause I drink beer and I dip Skoal
Guess I’m a rambler
‘Cause I can’t not be on the road
Might be a lost cause
‘Cause I’ll be out ’til the lights are on
And I’m a gambler
I’ll take the over on the underdog, huh
[Pre-Chorus]
Girl, half of this town has got a name for me
And I can’t say I don’t agree, huh
[Chorus]
But the night I said, “I’m leavin’,” I turned into Richard Petty
Broke my heart, so I got even in my ’97 Chevy
Now I’m walkin’ on this water mixed with Johnnie Walker Black
There’s a lot of reasons I ain’t Jesus, but the main one is that I ain’t comin’ back
Oh no, no, I ain’t comin’ back
[Verse 2]
You call me thе devil
Then you told me whеre to go
Go throw your pebbles
I’ll be somewhere gettin’ stoned
Girl, it ain’t my fault
Ain’t no need to wait three days
I might be a lot of things
But I ain’t your savin’ grace
[Chorus]
Yeah, the night I said, “I’m leavin’,” I turned into Richard Petty
Broke my heart, so I got even in my ’97 Chevy
Now I’m walkin’ on this water mixed with Johnnie Walker Black
There’s a lot of reasons I ain’t Jesus, but the main one is that I ain’t comin’ back
Oh no, no, I ain’t comin’ back
[Bridge]
Girl, half of this town has got a name for me
But there’s one I’ll never be, no
[Chorus]
‘Cause the night I said, “I’m leavin’,” I turned into Richard Petty
Broke my heart and I got even in my ’97 Chevy
Now I’m walkin’ on this water, mixed with Johnnie Walker Black
There’s a lot of reasons I ain’t Jesus, but the main one is that I ain’t comin’ back
Oh no, no, I ain’t comin’ back
Meet Me In Montauk 
That last line is probably what he said to Lorne Michaels when he ran off the SNL stage at the end of the show!🤪