Almost everyone can relate to losing a pet, and Chris Stapleton is no exception. The singer/ songwriter wrote his track "Maggie's Song" as an ode to his lab-terrier mutt. If you haven't grabbed a box of tissues, you may want to do that. According to the Tennessean, Stapleton wrote the song shortly after the dog died. Maggie was a member of the Stapleton family for 14 years, and it's safe to say that she had a significant impact on the singer. The song details Maggie's life on the farm and how she helped protect his children, among other things.
"Let me tell you a story / About an old friend of mine / Somebody left her in a shopping cart / In a parking lot for us to find," the first few lines of the song read, per AZ Lyrics. Toward the conclusion of the song, Stapleton detailed the end of Maggie's life, and by now, we're all crying like we did in Marley & Me. "It was raining on a Monday / The day that Maggie died / She woke up and couldn't use her legs / So I laid down by her side." Fittingly, the chorus says, "Run, Maggie run," presumably about Maggie's experience over the rainbow bridge. "Every word and every stitch of that song is real things," Stapleton told the Tennessean. "She was a member of the family, and she deserved a song." And now we're uncontrollably sobbing.
