In the interview featured on his website, Mat Kearney talked about "Annie":
"Annie was... I wrote in the back of the van on the way home from like a really dirty venue in Indianapolis. It was like one of those places where... I remember there was this girl in the front row that just kept blowing smoke in my face, the whole show. It felt fitting. There was a girl named Annie who told me her story about having to leave her parents and the city of Salt Lake City and just the pain that she had to get out of, she had to get out for her own health, and (????), and this whole story unfolded in my head and became this song, that I found myself in and some of my things, in those times where you're having to get out of certain areas or painful places. That song wrote itself, like, in 10 minutes, I wrote it."
In the interview featured on his website, Mat Kearney talked about "Annie":
"Annie was... I wrote in the back of the van on the way home from like a really dirty venue in Indianapolis. It was like one of those places where... I remember there was this girl in the front row that just kept blowing smoke in my face, the whole show. It felt fitting. There was a girl named Annie who told me her story about having to leave her parents and the city of Salt Lake City and just the pain that she had to get out of, she had to get out for her own health, and (????), and this whole story unfolded in my head and became this song, that I found myself in and some of my things, in those times where you're having to get out of certain areas or painful places. That song wrote itself, like, in 10 minutes, I wrote it."