Jordan Davis has released his new single, “Next Thing You Know,” as the follow-up to his recent two-week No. 1 single, “What My World Spins Around.” The Louisiana native wrote the tune with Greylan James, Chase McGill and Josh Osborne, and one of the interesting facts about the song is it doesn’t have a chorus.

“There’s no chorus to this song,” says Jordan. “And I think it’s really cool that all we do is repeat ‘Next Thing You Know’ throughout it, but when you’re trying to write songs for a, a job, not putting a chorus on it is a fast way to get it thrown into the garbage can, and I think that makes me more proud of this song in that this is what we wanted to do with it and we just wanted to be as honest as possible in how fast life goes. I remember leaving, telling somebody like when they were like, ‘Did you write today?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah.’ They said, ‘Did you get anything good?’ I was like, ‘Yeah, we wrote a song that doesn’t even have a chorus.’ And I got the look of like, ‘Well, we’ll probably never hear that one,’ and little did I know it would connect with a whole lotta people.”

You swear that you’re stayin’ single
Next thing you know
You meet a girl at a bar
And next thing you know
You get her laughin’
It’s 2 AM
You’re telling your buddies
3 months in that

She ain’t movin’ in
Next thing you know
There’s a U-Haul trailer
Next thing you know
Your old apartment
Is y’all’s new place
There goes the carpet, but
The deer head stays

Next thing you know
You’re savin’ money like never before, just to
Spend it all at a jewelry store, gettin’
Down on one knee on her mama’s porch
Just prayin’ she don’t say no
Next thing you know
Your best man gives a half-drunk speech and you’re
Sunburnt on a honeymoon beach and your
Left hand’s gettin’ used to that ring
There the next two or three years go
Next thing you know

You weren’t really tryin’
Next thing you know
There’s a test on the counter
Next thing you know
She’s standin’ there cryin’
Noddin’ her head yes
You’re half excited
Half scared to death

‘Cause next thing you
You’re wearing scrubs and a funny white hat and the
Doctor’s sayin’, how you doin’ there dad and
Nobody’s ever called you that and
You take that drive home slow
Next thing you know
It’s first steps, first dates, first car, it’s
11:01 wonderin’ where they are
Sayin’ that USC’s too far
It’s amazing how fast 17 years go
Next thing you know
Next thing you know

Next thing you know
You get to know your wife again and you’re
More in love than you’ve ever been with a
Lot of years of remember when’s
And still some down the road
‘Cause next thing you know
You got a yard full of your kid’s kids and ya
Take ’em to church, teach ’em to fish, and ya
Tell ’em stories every chance you get
About how fast this life down here can go
Next thing you know
Next thing you know

 

After a few dates in the States over this past weekend, Jordan is set to head north of the border beginning with a show in Vancouver on February 9th.