If You're Reading This by Tim McGraw Song Info
“If You’re Reading This” is one of Tim McGraw’s most emotional ballads, McGraw debuted it at the 41st Academy of Country Music Awards. Producers of the show were not told which song Tim would be singing on the show, so it was a surprise to all. “If You’re Reading This” was considering so moving that radio stations wanted to play it immediately, but, Tim and his co-writers had just finished the song (writing it just three weeks before the show), so there was no studio version of the track; regardless, radio stations played it anyways, the live version entering the Billboard charts at 37. The song, co-written by McGraw, serves a a “last letter” from a fallen soldier to his wife. In it, he reads the letter, describing how he misses his family and how he wishes that he could be with them. He assures his wife and mother that his soul is in [heaven], and that he is with God watching over his family.
