Taylor Swift is back bigger than ever. Releasing her seventh studio album Lover today, Swift gives us something we haven’t had in quite some time, a collaboration with a country artist. Teaming up with the Dixie Chicks, “Soon You’ll Get Better” is one for the books.

Written by Jack Antonoff and Swift “Soon You’ll Get Better” is super personal to the singer-songwriter. It’s is a song about Swift’s mom Andrea, who has been fighting a breast cancer battle and what the experience has been like for the artist. In her YouTube Live on Thursday, the Pennsylvania native admitted that this was the hardest song for her to write and it was ultimately a family decision to have it on the album.

The song is acoustic which not only highlights Swift’s vocals but adds to the pulling of the heartstrings. The Dixie Chicks join the artist on the chorus and the bridge. “Ooh-ah/ Soon, you’ll get better\ Ooh-ah\ Soon, you’ll get better\Ooh-ah\ You’ll get better soon\ ‘Cause you have to.”

Swift’s collaboration with the Dixie Chicks was no secret. Leading up to the album release she hinted at the collaboration with the trio. The first hint was in her cover photo for the May issue of Entertainment Weekly, which she wore a Dixie Chick pin on her jacket. The second “Easter Egg,” was planted in the video for “Me!”, her first single from the album, which featured a portrait of the trio.

This is the first we’ve heard from the Dixie Chicks in quite some time as it is rumored they will be releasing a new album in the near future.

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“Soon You’ll Get Better” is now available everywhere you buy or stream music. Take a listen below and check out more new recently released music here on our ‘New Country Music’ playlist. Be sure to give the playlist a follow for your weekly new country music fix.

Find the full lyrics to “Soon You’ll Get Better” below.

The buttons of my coat were tangled in my hair
In doctor’s office lighting, I didn’t tell you I was scared
That was the first time we were there
Holy orange bottles, each night, I pray to you
Desperate people find faith, so now I pray to Jesus too
And I say to you…

Ooh-ah
Soon, you’ll get better
Ooh-ah
Soon, you’ll get better
Ooh-ah
You’ll get better soon
‘Cause you have to

I know delusion when I see it in the mirror
You like the nicer nurses, you make the best of a bad deal
I just pretend it isn’t real
I’ll paint the kitchen neon, I’ll brighten up the sky
I know I’ll never get it, there’s not a day that I won’t try
And I say to you…

Ooh-ah
Soon, you’ll get better
Ooh-ah
Soon, you’ll get better
Ooh-ah
You’ll get better soon
‘Cause you have to

 

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