NASHVILLE, Tenn. (April 21, 2023) – MCA Nashville’s Catie Offerman releases her newest track today, “I Just Killed A Man.” The song is written by Offerman, Ryan Beaver (Blake Shelton, HARDY), Joe Clemmons (Gabby Barrett, Ryan Hurd), Jessie Jo Dillon (George Strait, Jon Pardi) and Benjy Davis (Chris Young, Jake Owen), and is produced by Dann Huff. The track will go to country radio next month and will be featured on Offerman’s upcoming debut project.
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The heartbreak song was the idea of Clemmons and Beaver, who came up with the title and suggested they try to write something called “I Just Killed A Man.”
“No one’s ever said it like that before. It’s a different and brutally honest way of saying ‘I just broke this dude’s heart,’” says Offerman. “It’s about a guy I loved who I wasn’t meant to be with.
Adds Offerman, “I love the line in the bridge that says, ‘just because it ain’t a crime, don’t mean I won’t be doing time.’ Even if you’re the one doing the breaking up, it still kills you like nothing else. I knew from the first second this song was spoken into existence that it was something special. My hope is that others feel that when they hear it.”
Lyrics for “I Just Killed A Man”
There ain’t nobody calling the cops
There ain’t no body circled in chalk
It was over and he knew it
Yeah, somebody had to do it
I just killed a man
Left him in his drive
Watch the light go out of his loving eyes
I got in my car
Made my get away
Couldn’t stop the tears
Running down my face
Yeah, he begged me not to let him go
But goodbye don’t give a damn
They won’t lock me up for this one, no
But his heartbreak’s on my hands
I just killed a man
Tonight it’s just whiskey and guilt on the rocks
Word gets around, this towns gonna talk
It ain’t like I never loved him
Wish that mattered, but it doesn’t
I just killed a man
Left him in his drive
Watch the light go out of his loving eyes
I got in my car
Made my get away
Couldn’t stop the tears
Running down my face
Yeah, he begged me not to let him go
But goodbye don’t give a damn
They won’t lock me up for this one, no
But his heartbreak’s on my hands
I just killed a man
Just because it ain’t a crime
Don’t mean I won’t be doing time
I just killed a man
I just killed a man
Left him in his drive
Watch the light go out of his loving eyes
I got in my car
Made my get away
Neither one of us will be the same
Yeah, he begged me not to let him go
But goodbye don’t give a damn
They won’t lock me up for this one, no
But his heartbreak’s on my hands
I just killed a man I just killed a man