“I try to hide my falling short/But you’re gonna see,” Wallen sings on the track titled “Superman”
Morgan Wallen isn’t hiding the truth from his son Indigo. On Monday, the country singer shared a clip of a new song titled “Superman” on which he sings to the four-year-old and admits to many of his life errors, including his April 2024 arrest for throwing a chair at a Nashville bar.
“One day you’re gonna see my mugshot/From a night when I got a little too drunk,” he sings in the clip. “Hear a song about a girl I lost/From the times that I just wouldn’t grow up.”
“And when you ain’t a kid no more/I hope you don’t think less of me/I try to hide my falling short/But you’re gonna see,” he sings.
In his Instagram caption, Wallen said he was “trying for a long time” to write a song for his son, but none ever felt good enough. “Not saying this is perfect, but I am very proud of it,” he wrote. “Here is a clip, it’s called ‘Superman.’”
The “Superman” title is referenced when he compares his alcohol consumption to kryptonite. “Don’t always know my wrongs from right/Sometimes I’m my own worst enemy,” he sings in the clip. “No I don’t always save the day/But you know for you I’ll always try/I do the best I can/But Superman still just a man sometimes.”
It’s unclear if and when Wallen will release the track. Back in December, Wallen pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of reckless endangerment without a weapon for throwing a chair at Eric Church’s Nashville bar. Instead of a year-long prison stint, a judge gave him a two-year suspended sentence and “seven days incarceration in a DUI education center,” followed by “supervised probation” for two years.
Although he doesn’t sing about it in the clip posted, Wallen also faced intense criticism after he was recorded saying the n-word to a group of friends as he arrived home after a night out in 2021. He was briefly dropped from country radio and uninvited to events.