What Does Old Dominion's Never Be Sorry Mean?

Guitarist and contributing songwriter Brad Tursi told Billboard, "More and more lately, if there's a sad lyric, I feel like I want to make every song happy. A happy sound with a sad lyric is, to me, a cool juxtaposition."

The continuous shot-style music video (via YouTube) shows Ramsey and the band strolling in and out of a cartoon starbursting landscape as they reminisce about the good times of the relationship, which occasionally include plans gone awry. For example, "Getting locked out of your car in the pouring rain" doesn't sound like much fun unless you've got someone to make the best of it with, and "missing the party" isn't usually the goal, but the added "because the way you looked in that dress blew me away" implies that the pair had a much better night in than out. In any case, it's clear that this "make the best of it ethos" extends to the singer's view of the whole relationship, summing up the meaning of the tune in the lines "Just 'cause we couldn't get the stars to line up/ Don't mean we leave empty-handed." There's always the memories.