[5] Almost immediately after hearing this hook, Alger grabbed a guitar and started playing what Brooks described as a "D-minor rolling thing.

The additional lyrics describe the wife reaching for her pistol to confront the cheating husband, with the narrator saying "tonight will be the last time she'll wonder where he's been.

[8] When he began thinking about a music video for the song, Brooks chose to allude to the fourth verse by including the visual theme of domestic violence.

Brooks chose to play the central part of the philandering husband himself, so that he could "make sure [the character] was so despicable that the whole viewing audience wanted to shoot him.

"[8] Before the video's release, Cathy Gurley, the head of public relations at Capitol Nashville, arranged a screening for industry women.

Several radio stations in the United States screened the video at quickly organized fundraisers for local battered women's shelters.

Capitol Records was contacted numerous times by women's shelters, thanking the company for raising awareness of domestic violence.

"[13] The following month, Capitol Nashville president Jimmy Bowen sent copies of the video to members of the Country Music Association, so that they could consider it for the upcoming annual awards show.

According to lead vocalist Phil Labonte, the band was pushing their boundaries: "Our core audience likes a lot of diverse styles of music and gets it, and I think there's enough stuff on it for people that haven't heard All That Remains before to be kind of lured in.

"[20] Taste of Country praised the cover commenting that All That Remains honors the song's dark nature with intense electric guitars and drums, coupled with Labonte's haunting vocals.

[24] The band notably performed an acoustic version of the cover at the studios of KAZR, an alternative rock radio station in Des Moines, Iowa.