The lead single from Garth Brooks' In Pieces album, "Ain't Goin' Down ('Til the Sun Comes Up)" was written by the singer with Kent Blazy and Kim Williams. It spent a week at the summit of the US country chart and also peaked at #13 in the UK.0

The song was written by the trio while sitting out on the back porch of Kent and Sharon Blazy's house. They came up with this story of a teenage boy and girl who defy their parents and escape their houses to stay out all night.

The songwriters were fretting over how Garth would manage the machine-gun delivery live and still be able to breathe. Garth recalled in his 2017 book, The Anthology Part 1: The First Five Years: "What we didn't know as we were doing it was that the lyric was becoming the cadence of the song, it was becoming the rhythm of the thing, the beat. You know, 'You better get your red head back in bed before the morning,' that red head becomes a push in the song, and it's funny because the whole studio band picked up on that immediately, that the lyric was the cadence, and they followed that cadence through it all."

Chris Leuzinger had already laid down all his guitar work when Terry McMillan was brought in to add his harmonica. When Leuzinger heard McMillan's work, he redid all of his guitar parts to compete with McMillan's playing.