"Love You" is a country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 song by Texas

Texas

Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

 country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 artist Jack Ingram

Jack Ingram

Jack Owen Ingram is an American Texas Country artist signed to Big Machine Records, an independent record label. He has released eight studio albums, one extended play, six live albums and eighteen singles. Although active since 1992, Ingram did not reach the U.S. country Top 40 until the late...

. The song was the second single from his Live: Wherever You Are album, and is one of the two studio tracks on the album, which is otherwise a live compilation.

Content

The song is considered a "kiss-off" song. Its lyrics feature several phrases where the word "fuck" is replaced with the word "love", most notably in the chorus ("Love you, love this town / Love this mother-lovin' truck that keeps breakin' lovin' down"). There are also more traditional replacements, with "dang," "heck," and "shoot" appearing several times in the first verse (replacing "damn", "hell", and "shit", respectively).

Music video

The song's video was directed by Shaun Silva. It shows Ingram performing in a bar, while his girlfriend is outside destroying a pickup truck, which she assumes is Jack's. She scratches "love you" in the paint of the hood with her car keys, uses a baseball bat to break the windows, and finally shoots out the tires with a shotgun. Jack then comes out of the bar at the end of the song, laughs at the vandalized truck, and then leaves in his own truck, parked several spaces away. The actual owner of the vandalized truck—a large, muscular man in a leather vest—comes out of the bar and surveys the damage to his truck, just as the girl flees the scene. The video uses a longer version of the song, with an extended 1-minute outro.

Chart positions

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Chart (2006)	Peak position

Other versions

• The original studio version from Live: Wherever You Are is also included on Jack's 2007 album This Is It
  This Is It (Jack Ingram album)
  This Is It is American country music artist Jack Ingram's second album for Big Machine Records, as well as his seventh studio album. Featured on the album is a cover of Hinder's hit single "Lips of an Angel", which Ingram released as a single, reaching No. 16 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs...
  
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• Trent Summar & The New Row Mob
  Trent Summar & The New Row Mob
  Trent Summar & The New Row Mob is an American country music group from the state of Tennessee. Its members comprise Trent Summar , Ken McMahan , Dan Baird , Dave Kennedy , and Michael "Supe" Granda...
  
  recorded "Love You" for their 2006 album Horseshoes & Hand Grenades.