‘6 Months Later’ by Megan Moroney - Lyrics & Meaning

First teased in February 2025, Megan Moroney spent the next few months sharing snippets of ‘6 Months Later’ across socials, with fans clamouring for a release date. Then, at long last, after dropping a cryptic clue hinting at the drop date, Moroney confirmed that the playful, uptempo offering would be arriving on Friday, June 20th.

The Georgia native has been suggesting in a handful of interviews that her third studio album will be more joyful and carefree. ‘6 Months Later’ epitomises this - as does the project's lead single, ‘You Had To Be There’ with Kenny Chesney - with Megan Moroney eschewing the heartbroken ballads in favour of jovial earworms so far.

‘6 Months Later’ finds Megan Moroney's charismatic, conversational vocals gliding across the energising instrumental, with the ‘Tennessee Orange’ hitmaker delivering each amusing punchline and cutting witticism with a metaphorical wink. The infectious, bright guitar riff that extends throughout the track combines with a simple, rhythmic drum pattern to give this a slightly nostalgic country feel.

“Let me set you the scene

November circa 2019

Put a hole in my heart, watched it bleed

You said that we were better off as strangers”

This opening lyric from Megan Moroney will have all the TikTok sleuths poring over her old Instagram posts, desperately searching for an easter egg as to which ex this could be about. The ‘Indifferent’ singer-songwriter makes it clear this is an old romance, but even so, at the time, it was deeply painful when her ex called it quits.

“I was barely alive

Out of 6 feet deep I was 5

Pretty sure they called a hearse outside

Ok, that’s dramatic, but I survived...then I survived”

With her trademark dark sense of humour, Megan Moroney outlines that she felt like she was close to death, quipping that she was almost six-feet-deep - let's say around five. Moroney goes on to joke that they probably “called a hearse outside” at the ready, before self-deprecatingly admitting, “Ok, that's dramatic, but I survived”.

“The ”Hey Meg I think I want you back,

I’m a couple drinks in thinking it’s my bad

That I let you walk away and let you go”

It's a tale as old as time I guess

When you couldn’t care more, I couldn’t care less

You’re a little too late to the party, heartbreaker

What doesn’t kill you calls you 6 months later”

It wasn't plain sailing after this point, though, with our protagonist then having to survive her ex's attempt to get back together half a year later. She conveys the conversation from her old flame's perspective, as he blithely remarks that he might have been to blame for the way things ended. Satisfyingly, Moroney is dismissive, and emphasises that he's missed the boat, before serving up the hilarious, titular spin on the age-old adage, “What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger”. Instead, she dryly replaces the phrase with, “What doesn't kill you calls you 6 months later”.

“Oh how the turns have tabled

All the sudden now you’re willing and able

Little therapy now you’re so stable

Ok well...your next girlfriend will be so lucky”

To not hear ”Hey Meg I think I want you back...

Fans of The Office US will appreciate this reference to the now-iconic malapropism from Steve Carell's Michael Scott, when he intends to say, “How the tables have turned”, but gets it a bit wrong - in classic Michael Scott fashion - and blurts out, “How the turntables”. It's become such a signature moment in sitcom history that many people - including this writer - just use the latter as the norm.

In this verse, Megan Moroney sarcastically compliments the ex that has called her up for how well he's doing. He's now in therapy and supposedly “stable”, but rather than be persuaded that he's worth a second chance, Moroney delivers the undoubtedly savage but hilarious line, “Ok well...your next girlfriend will be so lucky”.

Inevitably, with fans always on the look-out for potential references to Megan Moroney's rumoured fling with Morgan Wallen - which allegedly inspired ’Tennessee Orange’ - some have picked up on the mention of an ex going to therapy as a potential nod to Wallen. In ‘Kick Myself’, the Sneedville megastar croons, “Been talkin' to a doctor, been talkin' to the Lord”, which is a loose reference to getting therapy. We think this is looking too deeply into it, and that Moroney's lyric is purely meant to showcase how the ex is supposedly getting his life together.

And, just in case you were wondering, ‘6 Months Later’ is definitely not about Riley Green. Dating rumours continue to swirl around Moroney, Green and Ella Langley, but this particular track is about an old flame from 2019, rather than a more recent romance.

“What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger

And blonder and hotter

Makes you wonder what you even saw in him at all

What doesn’t kill you always calls”

Megan Moroney concludes with an empowering flurry of affirmations here, as she uses the original phrase that inspired the song, “What doesn't kill you makes you stronger”, adding cheekily, “And blonder and hotter”. The line, “Makes you wonder” could be a callback to one of Moroney's earliest singles, ‘Wonder’, which she always dedicates to her best friend, Natalie King, and her partner, Alex Harp.

“Let me set you the scene

November circa 2019

Put a hole in my heart, watched it bleed

You said that we were better off as strangers

-

I was barely alive

Out of 6 feet deep I was 5

Pretty sure they called a hearse outside

Ok, that’s dramatic, but I survived...then I survived

-

The ”Hey Meg I think I want you back,

I’m a couple drinks in thinking it’s my bad

That I let you walk away and let you go”

It's a tale as old as time I guess

When you couldn’t care more, I couldn’t care less

You’re a little too late to the party, heartbreaker

What doesn’t kill you calls you 6 months later

-

Oh how the turns have tabled

All the sudden now you’re willing and able

Little therapy now you’re so stable

Ok well...your next girlfriend will be so lucky

-

To not hear ”Hey Meg I think I want you back,

I’m a couple drinks in thinking it’s my bad

That I let you walk away and let you go”

It's a tale as old as time I guess

When you couldn’t care more, I couldn’t care less

You’re a little too late to the party, heartbreaker

What doesn’t kill you calls you 6 months later

-

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger

And blonder and hotter

Makes you wonder what you even saw in him at all

What doesn’t kill you always calls

-

With a ”Hey Meg I think I want you back,

I’m a couple drinks in thinking it’s my bad

That I let you walk away and let you go”

It's a tale as old as time I guess

When you couldn’t care more, I couldn’t care less

You’re a little too late to the party, heartbreaker

What doesn’t kill you calls you 6 months later”

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