I agree with the overall point… sounds nice enough, but this just isn’t a very well written song. There aren’t really any clever turns of phrase, and it’s really two songs sloppily combined into one:

1) Him drinking a woman away the beach and still having a “long, long way to go”

2) Him trying to drink a woman away at the beach but having bad-luck problems pop up that prevent him from doing so (e.g. bug in margarita, rain at the beach, etc.)

Either one could have been fun separately, but it just comes off as kind of awkward and forced as it is.

In my opinion, Strait’s summer single is much, much, better than this… I usually agree with you, Kevin, but I’m surprised they got the same grade.

better than chattahoochee in my book and no. 1 written all over it.