They say that inspiration can strike in the most unexpected settings - and it's safe to say this was the case for Morgan Wallen's chart-topping 2025 single, ‘I Got Better’.

Across this fan-favourite from Wallen's I'm the Problem album, the undulating, persistent guitar riff combines with the Sneedville native's unusually subdued vocals to create an almost hypnotic ambience, as he croons about finding peace, happiness and just about every other good thing in his life since his toxic ex left his side.

On paper, it's a classic Wallen heartbreak track. But as he explains via SiriusXM's Morgan Wallen Radio, ‘I Got Better’ actually started off as a more spiritually-minded tune.

He recalls how he came up with the idea for the song, which became his 20th No. 1 at Country Radio last year, while cooking up breakfast for his songwriting buddies, ERNEST, HARDY, Blake Pendergrass, Charlie Handsome, Chase McGill and Joe Reeves.

Wallen explains, “We were out at my farm, I was making breakfast for everyone, and we started talking about the Bible. I don't remember exactly how that led to me having this song idea. But it did, and we tried different ways to twist it, but for me, I knew that it needed to be: the only thing that changed was you remove something from your life and that's what...made things become better. We used a relationship with a girl as a vehicle to get that point across, but it doesn't have to be that”.

The particular Bible story the group were reportedly discussing was Noah's Flood, which takes place in Genesis. The writers were sharing their thoughts on the potential scale of that natural disaster. According to Pendergrass, ERNEST - ever the wordsmith - quickly threw out the line, ‘The world got bigger since the Bible got wrote’.

Although they then pivoted towards a romantically-themed story, they used the melody from ERNEST's lyric for the hook, changing the line to “I got better since you got gone”.

The ‘Love Somebody’ singer-songwriter goes on, “It can be anything in your life that's holding you back, that's causing you problems, that's not letting you see your full potential. I think most of us know what those things are, too, you know, it's easy to try to hide behind ignorance or whatever. But if you really look at yourself, you can diagnose yourself better than most people give themselves credit for”.

Elsewhere during this conversation, Wallen shares the key message of self-discipline that he hopes listeners take away from the hit song, “I wanted to inspire people to, if they knew that they had something that they needed to let go of, they needed to just go ahead and do it, and it would pay off. So I hope that came across”.

While it may seem like a bit of a stark thematic jump to go from talking about the Bible to penning a track about an old flame leaving, it's not actually as left-field as it might sound.

Wallen regularly underlines how important it is to him to bring elements of his Christian faith into his music as much as possible, with spirituality remaining both a key message and a clever tool through which Wallen conveys his emotions throughout I'm the Problem. We see this most clearly on the likes of ‘Genesis’, ’Revelation’, ‘I Ain't Comin‘ Back’ and ‘The Dealer’, as well as on earlier tracks, such as the visceral ‘Don't Think Jesus’ and the witty ‘Man Made a Bar’ with Eric Church.

With Wallen hosting these casual but through-provoking theological discussions at his Tennessee farm during the I'm the Problem writing sessions, it inevitably brings to mind something we've always wondered: will Wallen ever released a Gospel album?

He's often reflected on how, alongside country and rap, there was a lot of Contemporary Christian Music on the radio when he was growing up, with his dad being a local pastor.

The lines continue to blur between the flourishing CCM scene and the country world, with an increasing about of cross-genre collaborations. Brandon Lake, in particular, is following in the footsteps of Chris Tomlin in crafting a collection of country-Christian duets.

We think a faith-filled project from Wallen would satisfy a lot of listeners, and would feel like a natural extension of the imagery and language he is already lacing into his music.

It would also feel like a moving next step in his evolution from the rowdy, alcohol-fuelled days of If I Know Me and Dangerous to the maturer role model he now embodies.

The ‘Last Night’ hitmaker has shared clips in the past of him performing Gospel songs, such as his rousing rendition of the classic hymn, ‘Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus’, with ERNEST.

What's more, whenever Larry Fleet used to join him on-stage at his live shows during the early 2020's and they'd perform Fleet's hit single, ‘Where I Find God’, together, Wallen would cite that deeply spiritual offering as one of his all-time favourite songs.

Wallen has never been afraid to explore what he can bring to other genres, as we've seen with his rap-leaning collaborations with Lil Durk, Moneybagg Yo and more, as well as his indie-rock-inspired tracks, such as his Nothing But Thieves cover, ‘Graveyard Whistling’. While we're not sure it's something we should be expecting any time soon, we'd love to see Wallen craft a CCM record in the near future.

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