Lainey Wilson‘s performance of “Country’ Cool Again” was an early highlight of the CMT Music Awards. The lyrics caught fans by surprise.

The “Heart Like a Truck” hitmaker showed some swagger as she circled the Moody Center singing her new song.

Unless you’ve seen her live, you might not know Wilson could work a stage like that. The 2023 CMA Entertainer of the Year was at her best singing about how the pendulum between traditional and pop country has swung back her way.

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Wilson wrote the “Country’s Cool Again” lyrics with Trannie Anderson, Dallas Wilson and Aslan Freeman. The chorus is about people flocking to country music, but as is true with the best songs, you’ll find the true gems in the verse.

“Once you get a taste, you’ll lick the spoon / Learn every word to the Dance and Neon Moon” is a once-in-a-lifetime lyric. Scroll down to see all the lyrics.

Here Are Lainey Wilson’s “Country’s Cool Again” Lyrics:

I was born in boots on humble ground / These kinda roots, yeah, they sure don’t grow out / Yeah, even in a guitar town / My crooked drawl, the way I sung / My mama’s genes sure stuck out like a thumb / In a metro city crowd / Oh me, oh my, how things have changed / And I can’t believe my eyes these days / Everybody wanna be a cowboy.

Chorus:
Drive a jon boat, with a John Deere / Everybody want a backwoods front porch / With a tub full of iced-down beer / Must be something in the water flowing out of the holler / Blue collar must’ve caught a new wind / Doggone, dadgum it, didn’t see that coming / Country’s cool again.

Once you get a taste, you’ll lick the spoon / Learn every word to the Dance and Neon Moon / And next thing you know / You’ll hang a swing on a piece of land / Start sayin’ things like hell naw, hot damn / Yeah, and if you dip your toe / You’ll get bit by the bug and wanna wait in line / And that’s the kind of trend, oh, that I could get behind.

Repeat Chorus

Cool, cool, cool, cool / Country’s cool again / Cool, cool, cool, cool / Country’s cool again / Cool, cool, cool, cool / Country’s cool again / Cool, cool, cool, cool / Country’s cool again

Repeat Chorus

Ain’t that some s–t / I found a few hits / ‘Cause country’s cool again / So cool again.