Nichols says, in time, the nonsense might lead to a few words he likes.

BEN NICHOLS: “And I’ll build around that.”

The singer says the song “I Can’t Stand to Leave You” was one of the first he wrote for the new album.

BEN NICHOLS: “When you’re going on tour all the time it is kind of easy to see where that idea originated; just having to leave home all the time. I call it the saddest song on the record.”

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Reporter Caty Weaver asked Ben Nichols to identify some of his favorite lines of the album.

BEN NICHOLS: “Well, you mentioned that one from 'On My Way Downtown':

Last time we drank I was a little less than behaved

. And then the two lines immediately after that. They’re not Shakespeare or anything. It’s just,

Come on out tonight. Oh, I’ll be good tonight

."

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BEN NICHOLS: When I just say the line out loud it doesn’t sound like much. But every night when I sing it -- when the music goes one way and the vocals go the other way and whatever that kind of clash there there is. That’s where that emotional power comes from.”

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Another great line from “Women and Work” is in the song “When I Was Young.” It goes,

Working never did agree with me, or maybe I never stuck around long enough to see.

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Ben Nichols does not consider making music work.