Shelton's "Austin" centers around a songwriter in Nashville going through a breakup. His ex-girlfriend moves off to Austin, so he changes his answering machine to say the following: "By the way — if this is Austin, I still love you."
The Country Daily reports that Kirsti Manna and David Kent actually wrote the song, and they put a lot of thought into how the tale being sung would end. "The thing that finally worked was the twist ending, where he calls back and thinks for a minute he's got her answering machine — but he's really got her! So that put a bit of a smile at the end of it," Kent said.
Shelton himself identifies with the song, as he has gotten back together with girlfriends after breaking up, but he said "it never worked out" and that the song "relates to all of those situations, whether it works out or not,"' as it's "really about second chances" (via The Country Daily).
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