Randall King Releases Heartbreaking Classic Country Ballad, “I Keep Your Memory Around”

Holding onto a memory.

Randall King is doing a 180-degree switch from his last upbeat, jukebox twanger “Cheatin’ On My Honky Tonk” featuring Braxton Keith, to a slow, painfully good heartbreak ballad, “I Keep Your Memory Around.”

When King released his last single, he shared with fans that he felt the Texas twang of “Cheatin’ On My Honky Tonk” was the perfect bridge from Into The Neon into this new chapter of music. Randall King recently traded honky tonk hardwood floors and neon beer signs for nursery rhymes as he and his fiancée, Brittany Warthan, welcome their first daughter, Paisley Leanna, into the world.

“My fans all know how much I love a honky tonk, however life’s looking a little different these days. I’m spending less time under that neon glow and more time at home with my girls, and this song felt like the perfect way to bridge ‘Into The Neon’ and this next chapter.”

The song was light and featured witty lyrics about not spending time at the dive bar, and King was not wrong; it was a great bridge into this next chapter of music. However, after being gifted such an upbeat tune, I was not expecting to be hit by a truck of emotion with his next single.

Randall King began teasing “I Keep Your Memory Around” after performing it at the Grand Ole Opry, and fans instantly fell in love with the heartbreak ballad.

“This song right here is for anybody going through a heartbreak, through a hard time, or just lost somebody. There’s a light at the end of the tunnel, and you’re going to get there.” 

Randall King said in a promo clip for the single.

The tune, penned by Adam Craig, Matt Rogers, and Drew Parker, portrays a heartbroken man trying to muster the willpower to move on. While he knows being hung up on this former lover is not good for him, and he continues to hurt himself thinking about her, he can’t bear the thought of wiping his memory of this woman.

But the thoughts of this past relationship keep him company on lonely nights, which is why he chooses to keep these painful memories around.

“It helps me through the lonely nights
Ooh, I guess that’s why

I keep your memory around
I don’t care how bad it hurts
I know forgettin’ about you
Would hurt even worse
I know that I should move on
But I can’t let it move out
No you won’t ever be gone
If I keep your memory around…”

It hurts so good. Randall King took a knife and twisted it in your heart with his single, but it’s the optimism of a sad country song that makes me happy.

Turn it up.

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