Settle for a Slowdown

Infobox single
Name = Settle For A Slowdown
Artist = Dierks Bentley
from Album = Modern Day Drifter
Released = March 2006
Format = CD single
Recorded = 2005
Genre = Country music
Length = 3:43
Label = Capitol Records
Writer = Brett Beavers, Tony Martin, Dierks Bentley
Producer =
Certification =
Last single = "Come a Little Closer"
(2005)
This single = "Settle For A Slowdown"
(2006)
Next single = "Every Mile a Memory"
(2006)

"Settle For A Slowdown" is a single by American country music singer Dierks Bentley that reached the top of the "Billboard" Hot Country Songs chart. The third and final single from his CD, "Modern Day Drifter", it is Bentley's third number-one single on the country charts. [cite web |url=http://www.cmt.com/news/country-music/1532614/dierks-bentleys-slowdown-paces-to-no-1.jhtml |title=Dierks Bentley's "Slowdown" Paces to No. 1 |accessdate=2008-07-14 |last=Morris |first=Edward |date=2006-05-27 |work=Country Music Television]

Content

The song is a mid-tempo ballad that centralizes around a character whose lover is driving away from him, and he hopes for her to stop.

In the first verse, he is looking for his lover's vehicle while standing in the rain (in other words, "getting soaked to the bone.") His directions for her to come back are highlighted in the chorus:

:"But your wheels just turn down the road ahead,:"If it hurts at all, you ain't showed it yet:"I keep lookin' for the slightest sign:"That you might miss, what you left behind:"I know there's nothin' stopping you now:"But I'd settle for a slowdown."

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