{"id":1308945,"date":"2019-04-19T06:36:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T12:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1805614"},"modified":"2019-04-19T06:36:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T12:36:50","slug":"keith-urban-takes-a-side-in-the-15-year-old-lyric-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/keith-urban-takes-a-side-in-the-15-year-old-lyric-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Urban Takes a Side in the 15-Year Old Lyric Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:671506?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\">by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/bonaguroa\/\" title=\"Posts by Alison Bonaguro\" rel=\"author\">Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">25m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>In 2004, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/keith-urban\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Keith Urban<\/a> released a song called \u201cYou\u2019ll Think of Me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What came next was 15 years of his fans mishearing one of the song\u2019s most hotly contested lyrics:<\/p>\n<p><em>Take your records, take your freedom<br \/>Take your memories I don\u2019t need \u2019em<br \/>Take your space and take your reasons<br \/>But you\u2019ll think of me<br \/>And take your cap and leave my sweater<br \/>\u2019Cause we have nothing left to weather<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s how people on Team Cap have always heard the song. But Team Cat has always had a pretty solid argument for their take on things: Keith is not a cat guy, so of course he\u2019d want her to take her cat after their break-up.<\/p>\n<p>But on Thursday (April 18), Urban posted on social media a video that says it all.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">Take your cat. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mrBobbyBones?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@mrBobbyBones<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/26ExLKPERi\">pic.twitter.com\/26ExLKPERi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Keith Urban (@KeithUrban) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KeithUrban\/status\/1118965870162841601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 18, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Over the years, there has been speculation about the truth of that one line, from Urban fans, Urban himself and even the song\u2019s writers. Darrell Brown, Ty Lacy, and Dennis Matkosky. But now that he\u2019s put this video proof out into the world \u2014 shaking his head as he points to his BNA cap and then giving the affirmative thumbs up to the cat hiding under a bench \u2014 we can all move on to some other misheard lyrics.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll start: How long did it take you to figure out that Dan + Shay\u2019s \u201cTequila\u201d was about a girl in a sorority t-shirt?<\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\">Alison makes her living loving country music. She&#8217;s based in Chicago, but she&#8217;s always leaving her heart in Nashville.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1805614\/keith-urban-takes-a-side-in-the-15-year-old-lyric-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 25m ago In 2004, Keith Urban released a song called \u201cYou\u2019ll Think of Me.\u201d What came next was 15 years of his fans mishearing one of the song\u2019s most hotly contested lyrics: Take your records, take your freedomTake your memories I don\u2019t need \u2019emTake your space and take your reasonsBut you\u2019ll think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1308945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 07:36:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1308945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1308945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1308945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1308945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}