It was originally recorded by Lee Greenwood from his album Stronger Than Time, which was released in 2003.
It is also recorded by Atkins as the fifth and final single from his 2006 album, If You're Going Through Hell, when it was released to country radio in April 2008.
In this piano ballad, a man pretends to be composed about splitting up with his girl, but is in fact, "invisibly shaken, quietly breaking, desperately taking one breath at a time."
"[1] Ben Cisneros of Engine 145 gave it a "thumbs down", saying that "It has a weird melody and the whole first verse is sung to only a piano[…]It has the 'faux-broadway, sensitive ballad' feel that South Park uses when making fun of a Les Mis style musical".
Cisneros also thought that the "lyric isn't really anything to speak of" and that Atkins' voice displayed "Pointless, naked, shameless, sensitivity".