While being interviewed at the 2021 ACM Awards, Kenny Chesney took the opportunity to explain what "Knowing You" is really about. It might be surprising to learn that the song isn't meant to be sad, even though loss is definitely a theme. "It's about a lot of people that's come and gone in my life, that are still in my life," Chesney noted. "It would be easy to think that this song 'Knowing You' was a sad song ... it's a song about forgiveness, it's a song about gratitude."
Chesney added that the song is just about celebrating people you've known, even if they're no longer part of your life.
"Wherever they are in the world and whoever that is that whoever that person is that you know that they're good and they hopefully feel the same way about you," he shared. "It honestly is just about the fact that it was a moment of your life and you're glad it happened. The fact that it happened at all is what this song is about, not the fact that it's over. Because it would be easy to dwell on that. This song was about the fact that it happened in the first place."
