{"id":52474,"date":"2023-11-09T03:59:09","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T03:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/09\/what-song-did-kelsea-ballerini-sing-at-the-cma-awards-2023\/"},"modified":"2023-11-09T03:59:09","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T03:59:09","slug":"what-song-did-kelsea-ballerini-sing-at-the-cma-awards-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/09\/what-song-did-kelsea-ballerini-sing-at-the-cma-awards-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"What Song Did Kelsea Ballerini Sing at the CMA Awards 2023?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeandstylemag.com\/tags\/kelsea-ballerini\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Kelsea Ballerini<\/strong><\/a> performed her hit song \u201cLeave Me Again\u201d at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeandstylemag.com\/tags\/cmas-15052\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CMA Awards<\/a> in November 2023 and left fans in awe of her talent. But what is the song about, and what are the lyrics?<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Kelsea Ballerini\u2019s Song \u2018Leave Me Again\u2019 About?<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cLeave Me Again,\u201d which was released in February 2023 as part of her <em>Rolling Up the Welcome Mat<\/em> EP, was inspired by her decision to finally stop people-pleasing and focus on herself following her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeandstylemag.com\/tags\/divorce-14997\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">divorce<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeandstylemag.com\/posts\/who-is-kelsea-ballerini-married-to-meet-husband-morgan-evans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Morgan Evans<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the song where you finally go, \u2018I\u2019m not mad anymore. I don\u2019t even know if I\u2019m sad anymore. I think I just want well for everyone,\u201d she said on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QqxuViLxmhI&amp;ab_channel=CMT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CMT Storytellers<\/a><\/em>. \u201cAnd at the end of the day, like the lesson I\u2019m taking away is I have to honor myself.\u2019 And honoring yourself, I think, is just the most beautiful thing you can do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kelsea continued, \u201cI\u2019m really challenging myself to show up as someone who isn\u2019t scared to go there, because I think it helps open community and conversation. It\u2019s the rawest thing I\u2019ve ever done. It\u2019s the closest to the chest I\u2019ve ever been, and I\u2019m proud of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Kelsea Ballerini\u2019s \u2018Leave Me Again\u2019 Lyrics Breakdown<\/h2>\n<p>In \u201cLeave Me Again,\u201d Kelsea sings about wishing someone the best, but hoping that she\u2019s never in a position where she feels like she \u201cleaves\u201d herself behind again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope you\u2019re spending Christmas with your family \/ I hope you\u2019re writing songs that you love \/ I hope you\u2019re feeling happier than you\u2019ve ever been \/ And I hope I never leave me again,\u201d the opening lines read. \u201cI hope you\u2019re hiking that old trail in West Meade \/ And I hope you and Jane are talking more \/ I hope the top is off the Jeep, and you\u2019re driving in the wind \/ And I hope I never leave me again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kelsea Ballerini \u2013 \u201cLeave Me Again\u201d | Live at CMA Awards 2023\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bgWLcEcsl6k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the chorus, Kelsea sings about \u201coutgrowing\u201d the person she used to be.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor a while the shoe fit \/ But then I outgrew it \/ And staying only made me get real good at pretend \/ So, I hope I never leave me again,\u201d the lyrics continue. \u201cI hope I remember all the pieces \/ Of who I was that I lost on the way \/ I hope I learn to love myself like I loved you then \/ And I hope I never leave me again.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>When Did Kelsea Ballerini and Morgan Evans Get Divorced?<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeandstylemag.com\/posts\/kelsea-ballerini-husband-morgan-evans-split-plan-to-divorce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kelsea and Morgan were married<\/a> from 2017 to 2022. In October 2023, the \u201cMiss Me More\u201d singer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeandstylemag.com\/posts\/kelsea-ballerini-says-morgan-evans-divorce-was-gnarly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reflected on her divorce<\/a>, calling it \u201cgnarly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter that, I got back to why I started writing songs and that was because I had really big, complex human feelings that I needed to sort through and figure out,\u201d she said in her speech at the Time100 Next Gala.<\/p>\n<p>Kelsea, who is now dating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeandstylemag.com\/tags\/chase-stokes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Chase Stokes<\/strong><\/a>, added that she wrote <em>Rolling Up the Welcome Mat<\/em> \u201cin case there was another 29-year-old girl that was dealing with the same thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis EP changed my life in a way I can\u2019t really explain,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeandstylemag.com\/posts\/what-song-did-kelsea-ballerini-sing-at-the-cma-awards-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelsea Ballerini performed her hit song \u201cLeave Me Again\u201d at the CMA Awards in November 2023 and left fans in awe of her talent. But what is the song about, and what are the lyrics? What Is Kelsea Ballerini\u2019s Song \u2018Leave Me Again\u2019 About? \u201cLeave Me Again,\u201d which was released in February 2023 as part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-52474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}