Love You (song)

"Love You" is a song written by Jay Knowles and Trent Summar and recorded by American country music artist Jack Ingram. It was released in June 2006 as the second single from Ingram’s album Live: Wherever You Are, and is one of the two studio tracks on the album, which is otherwise a live compilation album.

This article is about the Jack Ingram song. For other songs with the same title, see Love You (disambiguation) § Songs.
"Love You"
Single by Jack Ingram
from the album Live: Wherever You Are
ReleasedJune 5, 2006
Recorded2005
GenreCountry, texas country, honky tonk
Length3:31 (album version)
LabelBig Machine
Songwriter(s)Jay Knowles, Trent Summar
Producer(s)Jeremy Stover
Jack Ingram singles chronology
"Wherever You Are"
(2005)		 "Love You"
(2006)		 "Lips of an Angel"
(2007)

Content

The song is considered a "kiss-off" song. Its lyrics feature several phrases where the word "fuck" is replaced with the word "love", most notably in the chorus ("Love you, love this town / Love this mother-lovin' truck that keeps breakin' lovin' down"). There are also more traditional replacements, with "dang," "heck," and "shoot" appearing several times in the first verse (replacing "damn", "hell", and "shit", respectively).

Music video

The song's video was directed by Shaun Silva. It shows Ingram performing in a bar, while his girlfriend is outside destroying a pickup truck, which she assumes is Jack's. She scratches "love you" in the paint of the hood with her car keys, uses a baseball bat to break the windows, and finally shoots out the tires with a shotgun. Jack then comes out of the bar at the end of the song, laughs at the vandalized truck, and then leaves in his own truck, parked several spaces away. The actual owner of the vandalized truck—a large, muscular man in a leather vest—comes out of the bar and surveys the damage to his truck, just as the girl flees the scene. The video uses a longer version of the song, with an extended 1-minute outro.

Chart positions
Chart (2006) Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[1] 12
US Billboard Hot 100[2] 87

Year-end charts
Chart (2006) Position
US Country Songs (Billboard)[3] 60

Other versions
  • The original studio version from Live: Wherever You Are is also included as an album cut on Ingram’s 2007 album This Is It.
  • Trent Summar & The New Row Mob recorded "Love You" for their 2006 album Horseshoes & Hand Grenades.

References
  1. "Jack Ingram Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
  2. "Jack Ingram Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
  3. "Best of 2006: Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 2006. Retrieved July 11, 2012.
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