Walker Hayes is proudly declaring his Swiftie standing on his New Cash EP.
The eight-song file ends with a monitor titled, “Taylor Swift,” which chronicles his expertise making an attempt to safe tickets to the 33-year-old singer’s Eras Tour.
“Two Taylor Swift live performance ticket stubs / Value me greater than my mortgage goes / And that was earlier than T-shirts, cokes and popcorn /However, hey, I imply what number of instances does your little woman flip 9?” Hayes, 43, croons within the first verse. “Dave Ramsey wouldn’t prefer it/ But it surely was priceless watchin’ her watch her hero, singin’ each single phrase to each tune.”
He continues: “Within the nosebleeds, smilin’ like we’ve VIP passes on / So enchanted, ’til her bedtime struck like midnight and she or he yawned / And, climbed up in my arms, she was gone.”
The nation singer took his daughter Loxley “Lolly” — whom he shares with spouse Laney Beville Hayes — to look at Swift’s present earlier this summer season, which spans her a long time within the highlight.
Whereas Walker marveled at Lolly’s pleasure to attend the Eras Tour on the monitor, he additionally supplied the sweetest perception into their father-daughter bond.
“Who am I that I get to carry an actual life princess / Whereas she sleeps by her approach too costly birthday present?” he sings within the refrain. “I simply hope that she grows up and all the time is aware of that me, her mother and Jesus / Love her much more than she loves Taylor Swift.”
Walker later provides: “When she turns 22 and I flip 56 / I hope she thinks of me when she hears Taylor Swift.”
In June, Walker first teased his “Taylor Swift” tune when he performed an acoustic model with Lolly for his Instagram followers. “Lolly’s new favourite tune. True story time,” he captioned video footage of the pair performing the then-unreleased single of their kitchen.
To advertise the discharge of “Taylor Swift” on Friday, September 29, Walker uploaded a clip of Swift cheering for rumored boyfriend Travis Kelce’s Kansas Metropolis Chiefs to his Instagram Story. He added a “Hearken to ‘Taylor Swift’” button to the publish, which linked to the tune’s Spotify, YouTube and Apple Music pages.
Walker and Laney had been highschool sweethearts — who met throughout a college manufacturing of Little Store of Horrors — earlier than they tied the knot in 2004. Since then, the “Fancy Like” singer and Laney have gone on to welcome six youngsters: Lela, Chapel, Baylor, Beckett, Loxley and Everly. (The duo’s seventh youngster, daughter Oakleigh, was stillborn in June 2018.)
“It’s essential that your father loves you and that you understand it,” Walker advised Fatherly in 2020 after his method to parenting. “I do know it’s essential from being a son. I do know my dad loves me. It has helped me to develop into a person. I all the time need them to know I’m of their nook.”
He continued on the time: “We don’t get up as their dad and mom and know each single factor we’re doing. I inform my 13-year-old on a regular basis that we’re studying as we go alongside. It’s essential to show them to forgive themselves and one another.”
Walker Hayes’ New Cash EP is out now.