Zach Bryan Shares New Song, ‘Pocket Change’ - Are We About to Get One of His Classic Post-Album EPs?

For any other artist, the release of a sprawling 25-song album - and then a companion project with acoustic versions of each track - would be followed by an extensive period of hibernation, and definitely no sign of new music for the foreseeable future.

Zach Bryan isn't just any artist, though, with the Oklahoma native having built a reputation as one of the most prolific teasers of new music out there. As a result, it's perhaps not surprising that, less than a week after dropping With Heaven On Top, he's already back on Instagram and YouTube sharing unreleased music.

What's particularly exciting about this latest clip - titled ‘Pocket Change’ - is the fact that the ‘Something in the Orange’ singer-songwriter has uploaded the full song to YouTube.

Starting off by taking his still-smoking cigarette and tucking it into the fret of his guitar, Bryan then regales listeners with the tale of a woman who is trying to help her lover through a dark spell, as they struggle to make it to midnight on New Year's Eve.

Across the gentle strum of his guitar, Bryan sets the scene of the bittersweet, aching vignette, “She’s got a plan to get em both outta here, / If they can make it through the end of the night they can make it through the year / But New Years Day’s a life time away come 9 and her breath smells like cigarettes and sex and wine”.

It's not yet clear what Bryan's plans for ‘Pocket Change’ are, but we're hoping it'll either be a part of his long-teased American Underbelly visual album, or one of his traditional post-album EPs. It's also possible, of course, that the country-folk chart-topper is simply testing the water, and has no immediate plans to drop it.

We're holding out hope, though, that his decision to share the full version of ‘Pocket Change’ is a hint that he has plans to release the track in the coming weeks. Barely two months after dropping American Heartbreak in 2022, Bryan shared his lauded Summertime Blues EP - which remains one of our favourite projects of his - and similarly, less than a month after releasing his 2023 self-titled album, he shared his folk-leaning Boys of Faith EP, featuring Noah Kahan and Bon Iver.

So, despite it sounding somewhat insane to be asking for more music from Bryan so soon after he's effectively given us the best part of 50 songs via the two versions of With Heaven On Top, we wouldn't put it past him to have more up his cut-off sleeve.

In our opinion, Bryan's post-album EPs are some of his strongest projects, and they often feel like more concise and polished bodies of work, and we'd love to get one in 2026.

By the same token, we're curious about his mysterious American Underbelly visual album, which he's been teasing for months. We're keeping our fingers crossed he hasn't completely scrapped this, and that there's a lot more en route from Bryan...

For the full lyrics to Zach Bryan's ‘Pocket Change’, see below:

“She’s got a plan to get em both outta here,

If they can make it through the end of the night they can make it through the year

But New Years Day’s a life time away come 9 and her breath smells like cigarettes and sex and wine

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This town's always gonna be the same what it was before

Just another drunk man with his white trash version of war

Had a wife, had a life, had a baby on the way then he lost it,

Cause the only change he’ll ever know sits in his front pocket

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She fell in love with an ego addict,

Out on the coast with her dark red lipstick

He’s long gone and she still reeks like wine

And a baby boy with a father that won’t say mine

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He grew up on the corner of 24th and Read

Just praying for a man that he knows he’ll never meet

And his mother said his daddy died a long long time ago,

A good and honest humble man God fearing war hero,

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But she’s got a plan to get them both out of here,

In the house of the rising sun men disappear

Made it to a truck stop just east of the coast

Where A man and his hand begged for change in a big black coat

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She fell in love with an ego addict,

Out on the coast with her dark red lipstick

He’s long gone and she still reeks like wine

And a baby boy and a father that won’t say mine

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She’s got a plan to get em both outta here,

If they can make it through the end of the night they can make it through the year

But New Years Day’s a lifetime away come 9

And she still smells like cigarettes, sex, and wine”

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