'Sunset' by Gavin Adcock – Lyrics & Meaning

It was gift enough that Gavin Adcock recently announced a release date for his upcoming studio album, Own Worst Enemy, but still, he's been consistently rattling of single after single.

The impending 24-track collection, set to arrive on Aug. 15, has already treated us to rowdy songs about drunken arrests and unruly tunes about heartache – all steadily rising hits in which he makes a case for himself. And now, with his latest offering, 'Sunset', the hitmaker is back to prove once more that he may, in fact, be his own worst enemy.

The regretful country twanger finds him shamefully girlfriend-less and unsure of whose ass needs kicking because of it. Hint: It may just be his own.

'Sunset' comes into view with the warm pull of fiddle strings and the heated steel of a straight-forward country bop, reminiscent of Tracy Byrd's 2002 anthem, 'Ten Rounds with José Cuervo'.

The willful breakup ballad dips in and out of this symphony of rhythm and twang, the energy dissipating just enough for Adcock to get his point across, and then, it's back up again, the artist eager to get to the bottom of just who hurt who.

"Guess I went and did what I said I wouldn't do
Now I'm starin' down the barrel of the cold hard truth
I went and broke both of our damn hearts
Now she's wrapped up in a pair of new arms"

Throughout 'Sunset', Gavin Adcock has to grapple with the fact that his lover has left him for another man. Listeners soon discover, though, that he may very well be the one to blame for the heartache.

From the jump, the artist is vague on the details, simply singing, "I went and broke both of our damn hearts / Now she's wrapped up in a pair of new arms."

He's forced to come face-to-face with the truth that he did something irrevocable to the one he was supposed to love. Now, he's looking to get even, but it seems like the only score he has to settle is with himself.

"I don't know whose ass I wanna kick more
Mine or that old boy's in the getaway Ford
Just turned up a bottle full of regret
She's out off ridin' to the sunset"

He can't quite decide if he's angrier at himself or the man she ran away with, so in the Adcock fashion, he turns to the bottle for clarity.

He recounts the order of events, recalling in the song, "Slipped in like a bandit in the dark of night / He caught a wind, I just couldn't act right." He sings of the indiscretion as if it were some kind of covert operation, in which the Other Man sweeps in to save to the women from the guy who can't seem to get his act together.

Sure, he sings that he has "Nobody to blame but my damn self." However, "Him sneaking around sure didn't help."

"Guess I could've made her the hang around kind
But I played her hard till she lost her mind
Now I'm standin' drunk in the driveway
Watchin' red ants fade down the highway"

As the song progresses, we finally become privy to what Adcock did. Or rather, what he didn't do, which was treat his partner right. He sings about how he toyed with her feelings until, ultimately, she decided enough was enough.

Now, he's left standing in the driveway, watching her leave, with his regrets, his bottle and all of his blame as his sole company.

"I don't know whose ass I wanna kick more
Mine or that old boy's in the getaway Ford
Just turned up a bottle full of regret
She's out off ridin' to the sunset
Ridin' to the sunset
Yeah, she's ridin' to the sunset
That bitch is ridin' to the sunset"

Guess I went and did what I said I wouldn't do
Now I'm starin' down the barrel of the cold hard truth
I went and broke both of our damn hearts
Now she's wrapped up in a pair of new arms

I don't know whose ass I wanna kick more
Mine or that old boy's in the getaway Ford
Just turned up a bottle full of regret
She's out off ridin' to the sunset

Slipped in like a bandit in the dark of night
He caught a wind, I just couldn't act right
Nobody to blame but my damn self
Him sneaking around sure didn't help

I don't know whose ass I wanna kick more
Mine or that old boy's in the getaway Ford
Just turned up a bottle full of regret
She's out off ridin' to the sunset

Guess I could've made her the hang around kind
But I played her hard till she lost her mind
Now I'm standin' drunk in the driveway
Watchin' red ants fade down the highway

I don't know whose ass I wanna kick more
Mine or that old boy's in the getaway Ford
Just turned up a bottle full of regret
She's out off ridin' to the sunset

I don't know whose ass I wanna kick more
Mine or that old boy's in the getaway Ford
Just turned up a bottle full of regret
She's out off ridin' to the sunset
Ridin' to the sunset
Yeah, she's ridin' to the sunset
That bitch is ridin' to the sunset

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