Morgan Wallen “Broke Down Crying” The First Time He Listened To The “Superman” Demo

An extremely personal song that brought Morgan Wallen to tears.

Last night, he played an intimate, one-night-only show at the Roundhouse in London, which is his first show since releasing his fourth studio album I’m The Problem last Friday. It’s off to a hot start, as it debuted at the top of the Billboard 200 all-genre chart, making it the year’s biggest week for any album so far in terms of unit sales. He earned 493,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending May 22, according to Luminate. It also easily lands the largest streaming week for any album in 2025, and he secured that stat in the very first day it was out.

In terms of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, which consists of singles, rather than the album as a whole, Morgan has six songs from the record within the top 10, with his duet with Canadian pop star Tate McRae “What I Want” landing a the top spot. It’s Morgan’s fourth Hot 100 chart topper and McRae’s first, though some of her fans don’t seem too thrilled about it.

Morgan has talked about how songs like “I Got Better” are some of the most raw songs on the record, but he’s mentioned “Superman” a lot in terms of how emotional it was for him to write, as he penned it for his son, Indigo, and co-wrote with Ryan Vojtesak, John Byron, Blake Pendergrass and James Maddocks to bring it to life. It’s a pretty honest admission about his faults and poor decisions, including his multiple arrests and many nights drinking and making bad decisions:

“I can’t stop a bullet, but I take one
I can’t move a mountain, but I face one
One day we’ll say where’d the years go
But I hope I’m always your hero

‘Cause now and then, that bottle’s my kryptonite
Brings a man of steel down to his knees
Don’t always know my wrong from right
Sometimes I’m my own worst enemy
No, I don’t always save the day
But you know for you I’ll always try
I do the best I can, but Superman’s
Still just a man sometimes”

Obviously, his son is still very young, but I’m sure one day it will mean the world to him and I can only imagine how much special it will become when he can fully understand it.

Morgan told the London crowd last night that he had 30 songs together for I’m The Problem, which at some point he decided weren’t good enough and he scrapped them all. But right before he was supposed to turn in the final, finished tracklist for the album, he penned “Superman” and had an extremely emotional reaction to it.

The day he wrote it, he listened back to the rough draft on the way home, and Morgan told fans “he broke down” crying and knew he had to include it because he felt like so many people would be able to relate to it in some way:

“Right before we were getting ready to turn in this record, we started writing this song… once we write a song, usually I’ll get Charlie or whoever I write with, usually Charlie, and he’ll send me the demo so I can listen to it on the way home. Just a rough draft of  what we did that day. And he sent this to me, and I was driving home, it’s like a 25 minute drive at the max.

So I usually listen to the song about seven times during that, depending on how long it is just to see if I like it. The very first time I heard it back after we got through writing it, I just, I just broke down, and I was crying. And that’s the first time I had done that writing a song for my little boy. So I figured if it touched m that way, then hopefully it would touch a lot of you guys the same way.”

For all of Morgan’s personal life drama and offstage antics, he seems to be a great dad who obviously loves his son a lot, so it’s interesting to hear more about this side of him which we really don’t ever see at all, which is completely understandable as I’m sure he wants to keep Indigo out of the spotlight for good reason.

During an episode of Theo Von’s This Past Weekend podcast not long ago, Morgan said it’s one he’s “tried to write many times,” but never could find the right words until now:

“I’ve tried so many times to write a song like that for him, and it always fell flat. I also didn’t want to write a song to him that was all sappy and slow, and just what you would expect a dad’s son song to be. That song has been written plenty enough and I wanted it to keep a little bit of my sound and my swag and just to be honest. And I feel like we accomplished that when we wrote it.”

You can watch him talk about it here:

@big1country @morganwallen Gets Emotional Talking About Son Song Superman #morganwallen #morganwallentiktok #morganwallenmusic #morganwallenconcert #morganwallenfyp #morganwallenfan #morganwallennation #london #roundhouselondon #fyp #country #countrymusic #newalbum #1 ♬ original sound – big1country

The production isn’t necessarily for me, but the sentiment is beautiful and I love hearing this much deeper, more introspective side of Morgan.

“Superman”

Of course, I’m extremely partial to the more stripped back The Shop Sessions version:

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