It's Your Song
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| "It's Your Song" | ||||
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| Single by Garth Brooks | ||||
| from the album Double Live | ||||
| Released | November 16, 1998 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 4:18 (Double Live version) | |||
| Label | Capitol Nashville | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Pam Wolfe, Benita Hill | |||
| Producer(s) | Allen Reynolds | |||
| Garth Brooks singles chronology | ||||
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"It's Your Song" is a song written by Pam Wolfe and Benita Hill, and recorded by American country music artist Garth Brooks. It was released in November 1998 as the only single from his live album Double Live, reaching a peak of number 9 on the U.S. Billboard country singles charts and number 5 on the Canadian RPM country charts that year, as well as peaking at number 62 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. Both the live recording from Double Live and an alternate studio recording were shipped to radio.
Version history
Written by Benita Hill and Pam Wolfe, "It's Your Song" is a mid-tempo ballad which Brooks dedicated to his mother.[1] In it, he expresses the motivation that she had on him and his career.
According to Brooks, Hill pitched him the song after hearing that Brooks' mother was suffering from throat cancer. Hill had initially written the song about her own mother.[1]
The live version — the one most commonly heard on radio — and the alternate studio version have a couple of differences.
The most noticeable difference can be heard toward the end of the song, with the final refrain; the lyric in question is "Guiding my heart to find/This place where I belong/It was your song/It was your song/It's always been your song." In the live version, Brooks briefly becomes emotional when singing the second "It was your song" before composing himself to end the song. Brooks maintains his composure throughout the final refrain (as well as the rest of the song) in the studio version.
Critical reception
The song was given mixed reviews by musical critics: Mark Guarino of the Arlington Heights, Illinois Daily Herald called the song "earnestness at its slickest",[2] while Ann Powers of The New York Times said that it was "splendidly corny".[3]